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The Cassini spacecraft discovered intriguing dust particles around Saturn's moon Enceladus during its February 17 flyby, and during another flyby on March 9 at an altitude of 500 kilometres. The onboard co...
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A new study suggests that Jupiter's cloud bands are driven by thunderstorms.
The jet streams that give Jupiter its colourful cloud bands may extend thousands of miles into the planet’s interior, and are...
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New computer simulations of Mercury’s formation show the fate of material blasted out into space when a large proto-planet collided with a giant asteroid 4.5 billion years ago. The simulations, which track the material over several million years, shed light on why Mercury is denser than expected...
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The surface of Venus is perpetually covered by a veil of thick clouds and remains hidden from even the powerful telescopic eyes of earth-bound astronomers.
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The Hubble Space Telescope captures the distant blue-green world, Neptune, and its satellites in this portrait. Astronomers used Hubble’s assortment of filters to pinpoint high altitude cloud...
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A small northern New Mexico village now shares its name with a 5-mile-wide asteroid crater on Mars.
The International Astronomical Union recently named the Martian crater for the village of Chupadero, which sits at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
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Scientists Debate Planet Definition and Agree to Disagree Recognising the need for further scientific debate on planet definition, more than 100 scientists and educators representing a wide range of viewpoints on the issue converged for three days on the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hop...
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