We may not have found many planetary systems like our own Solar System. Still, there’s one thing they do seem to have in common: They appear to be made out of good ol’ ordinary...
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Rare Cosmic Event Will See 5 Planets Align in The Sky. Here’s How to Watch. : ScienceAlert
Don’t miss the planet parade taking place at the end of March. Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, and Mars are set to align in an arc formation on the nights of March 25 through 30,...
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Baby Planets May Do Something Sneaky With Their Water to Protect It From Unruly Stars : ScienceAlert
Creating rocky planets is a messy, dangerous, hot business. Planetesimals accrete together, which creates heat and pressure on the newborn world. The nearby adolescent star bombards them with intense radiation. That likely “bakes off”...
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Terminator Zones on Harsh Planets May Sustain Life in an Endless Twilight : ScienceAlert
Earth, currently, is our only blueprint for planetary habitability. There may be life elsewhere out there in the big, wide galaxy, but ours is the only world on which we know, for a certainty,...
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Planets Remarkably Similar to Jupiter And Neptune Found Orbiting a Sun-Like Star : ScienceAlert
When it comes to finding life on other planets, a warm, wet world bubbling with a complex soup of chemicals might not be enough. It could pay to have the right kinds of planets...
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Martian ‘Lightning’ Could Play a Major Role in The Planet’s Chlorine Cycle : ScienceAlert
Dust storms are a serious hazard on Mars. While smaller storms and dust devils happen regularly, larger ones happen every year (during summer in the southern hemisphere) and can cover continent-sized areas for weeks....
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Incredible Footage Shows Planets Circling a Star Light-Years Away : ScienceAlert
A new video shared on YouTube is one of the most amazing things we’ve ever seen in planetary science. The video shows four dots of light moving in partial concentric circles around a black...
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This Simple Video Shows How Far You Could Throw a Ball on Other Planets : ScienceAlert
Imagine throwing a baseball. Easy, right? Maybe you’ve already done it a few times. Now imagine throwing a baseball on the Moon. Maybe you’ve seen enough videos of astronauts bouncing around up there to...
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Strange Mystery of ‘Missing’ Planets Across Space May Be Solved : ScienceAlert
Today, the number of confirmed exoplanets stands at 5,197 in 3,888 planetary systems, with another 8,992 candidates awaiting confirmation. The majority have been particularly massive planets, ranging from Jupiter and Neptune-sized gas giants, which...
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Some Planets Seem to Have a Strange Ability to Make Their Star Age Slower : ScienceAlert
Stars seem to have an anti-aging trick that humans can only dream about: their families. Astronomers have discovered that the presence of the right-sized planet orbiting its parent fast enough seems to slow the...
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