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Pluto has long been one of the most debated celestial bodies in our solar system. Once classified as the ninth planet, it was ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? The sun will someday ...

Planetary rings are one of the most striking sights in the solar system, yet not every planet has them. Saturn’s […] ...

Determining the size of an Earth-size exoplanet by the amount of starlight it blocks hundreds of light-years away once was the realm of science fiction. Measuring the mass of such a small planet based ...

How do you explore the interior of a planet without ever touching down on it? Start by watching the way the planet spins, then measure how your spacecraft orbits it — very, very carefully. This is ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A ‘gravity hole’ on Earth? Earlier this summer, researchers with the Indian Institute of Science published a paper exploring one of these ‘gravity holes’. Found all over the planet, ...

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Our closest planetary neighbor Venus keeps leaking carbon and oxygen into space, mystifying scientists. Carbon and oxygen, among other gases, are being stripped from Venus' atmosphere after being ...