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Pluto is not a planet 鈥� it’s a billion comets squished together
Pluto鈥檚 heart-shaped ice plain is full of nitrogen, which hints that the tiny world is made from a billion comets and could have a buried ocean
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Why Saturn’s inner moons look like ravioli, cigars and potatoes
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Weird backwards asteroid may be an interstellar interloper
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Falling mini-moons may have created Earth鈥檚 first continents
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We鈥檝e lost track of more than 900 near-Earth asteroids
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Probe saw plumes on Europa 20 years ago – we just didn’t notice
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The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years
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Gamma rays from the sun are acting weird and nobody knows why
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Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet
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Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons
After Jupiter formed, it likely had no nearby material to build moons. Young Saturn may have tossed rocks at the gas giant that grew into its four biggest moons
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Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds
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Jupiter’s hefty twin found just 12 light years away
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Mission Icarus: Inside the daring plan to touch the sun
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Mercury’s long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system
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