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The source of enigmatic circles on the surface of Earth’s closest relative in solar system revealed in new paper A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

Astronomers have sighted a very dense planet-sized objectthat orbits its parent star in just four days and six hours. The object, COROT-exo-3b, fits into the category of afailed star known as a ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were carved by rivers, so it was once warm enough for liquid water. How—and ...

Researchers at the University of Warwick investigated the “birth environment” of planets – areas of gas and dust that swirl around a central star – known as the protoplanetary disc. They discovered a ...

Can you identify which planet was photographed in this image? Surprise, it’s Venus! Yes, yes. We know. This was totally a trick question. Obviously, Venus is not blue. In fact, it kind of looks like a ...

Unusual carbon found on Mars could tell us about the history of the red planet – if scientists can find an explanation for where it came from. Scientists say there are three possible explanations for ...

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