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The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

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Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...

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Experiments suggest that processes in the interior of the moon could keep it swathed in an atmosphere that should otherwise ...

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"Our data paints a clear picture that MAPP survived the landing attempt and would have driven on the lunar surface and ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.