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NASA has finally peered into the heart of a white dwarf system in a way astronomers have been chasing for decades, turning a ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Mercury is happening on the opposite side of the solar system to where Earth is, ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

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