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Our Planet’s Greatest Untold Story — Global Issues

Credit: NOAA Photo LibraryThe third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3), scheduled to take place in Nice, France from 9-13…

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Which planets have rings? | Live Science

When you think of a planet with rings, majestic Saturn almost definitely comes to mind. But it’s not the only…

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Do other planets have seasons?

Every year, Earth follows a familiar pattern of seasonal changes: As summer rolls around in the Northern Hemisphere, winter creeps…

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These are the sharpest images yet of planets being born around distant stars

Astronomers have captured the sharpest, most detailed images yet of young solar systems where planets are just beginning to take…

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‘Quiet Chernobyl’ changed Earth’s surface so much the planet’s mantle is still moving 80 years later

Central Asia’s desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth’s mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is…

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How Many Rogue Planets Are in the Milky Way?

How Many Rogue Planets Roam the Milky Way? According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their…

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When’s the next ‘parade of planets’? The past, present and future of planetary alignments

The recent and much-ballyhooed “planetary parade” was an interesting celestial event that likely spurred even infrequent skywatchers to seek out…

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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper Belt, is helping scientists nail…

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Alien life could survive on Earth-like planets circling dead stars, study suggests

White dwarfs may be stellar corpses, but that doesn’t mean that everything around them has to be lifeless. That’s the…

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Ocean’s ‘heart’ is slowing down — and it will affect the entire planet’s circulation

Melting Antarctic ice is slowing Earth’s strongest ocean current, according to a new study. The influx of cold meltwater could…

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