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Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

We assumed habitable planets couldn't exist in solar systems where gas giants ricochet around. So why do we keep finding them?

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Unnamed dwarf planet may be third largest in the solar system

Space

Unnamed dwarf planet may be third largest in the solar system

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Colourful topographic map of Mercury

Space

First global Mercury map shows its hills and valleys in detail

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Mercury crossing the sun

Space

How to watch Mercury pass in front of the sun today

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Earth

Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD

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Makemake shining brightly, with a small, faint blob just above it and a big arrow pointing to it

Space

Never-before-seen moon spotted around dwarf planet Makemake

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Saturn's rings as seen from space

Space

Cassini gears up for final fiery plunge into Saturn's atmosphere

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Earth

How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system

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Cal Tech Astronomer Mike Brown points out the 'Predicted Orbit', in yellow, of the 9th Planet at the Caltech Seismology Lab

Space

We are closing in on possible whereabouts of Planet Nine

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Front page of The Sun newspaper, headlined 'World's end'

Space

Ease up doom mongers, Planet Nine is not about to destroy us

Contrary to tabloid tales, a distant extra planet in our solar system is not about to send comets raining down on us, says astronomer Phil Plait

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Space

Planet Nine might be an exoplanet stolen by the sun

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Space

More evidence for Planet Nine as odd celestial alignment emerges

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Space

Mercury once had a graphite crust floating on a sea of magma

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Space

Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe

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