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Smelliest planets in and around our solar system
Have you ever wondered if the seemingly endless vacuum of space had a smell? The answer to this que…
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A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn't exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers finally think they know why
"Super puff" WASP 107b confused scientists for years. Now, two independent teams of astronomers thi…
Ellyn Lapointe
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New NASA photos offer a close look at Jupiter's fiery moon with erupting volcanos that dwarf anything on Earth
NASA's Juno spacecraft flew extremely close to Jupiter's eruptive moon Io and took some stunning ph…
Ellyn Lapointe
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A planet made of melted metal could be the key for finding the next Earth
A planet that’s gassy like Jupiter with melted metals in its atmosphere, and placed right next to t…
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The first-ever exoplanet discovered was born at least a 100 times farther away from its Sun than where it is now — and has six chemicals in its atmosphere to prove it
Osiris, officially called HD 209458 b, is the first-ever planet that astronomers spotted beyond the…
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Jupiter's aurora triggered a planet-wide heat wave, a map animation reveals, solving a mystery that's puzzled scientists
A heat wave on Jupiter helped astronomers solve the planet's "energy crisis" mystery. Watch the vid…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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What would happen if humans tried to land on Jupiter
At 13,000 miles down, you reach Jupiter's innermost layer. Here the pressure is 2 million times str…
Gene Kim,Jessica Orwig
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In a single month, the James Webb Space Telescope has seen the oldest galaxies, messy cosmic collisions, and a hot gas planet's atmosphere
In the month since the space telescope released its first batch of images, it's deluged astronomers…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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'Failed stars' may have a cosmic speed limit to how fast they can spin — otherwise they'll break apart
Brown dwarfs, also called ‘almost stars’ or ‘failed stars’, can spin as fast as 300,000 kilometres …
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Scalding hot temperatures above the solar system's largest storm might solve a longstanding mystery about Jupiter
"A good analogy for this is it's pretty much like stirring a cup of coffee with a spoon," O'Donoghu…
Ali Sundermier
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Here's what aliens living on Jupiter's beautiful moon Europa might look like
Last November, a team of scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory studied one of the world'…
Jessica Orwig
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Jupiter is humongous, and this photo of its hellish moon proves it
Instead of generating electricity using red-hot plutonium-238, which is extremely limited in supply…
Dave Mosher
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The sky is (literally) falling on Jupiter's most hellish moon
You're a Jovian lunar explorer in the year 2200. You've piloted your lander to the surface of Io, t…
Rafi Letzter
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NASA has photographed a pearly white storm on Jupiter that's nearly as big as Earth
The most famous of these is the mysterious Great Red Spot, a storm twice as wide as Earth that has …
Kevin Loria,Dave Mosher
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These weird animals make scientists think that life could thrive on one of Jupiter's moons
Only first discovered in 2012, the shrimp are not well understood. But last November, a team of sci…
Jessica Orwig
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Marijuana M&A is already hot in 2019, with a pot tech-vape tie-up worth $210 million
"When you look at the data within the states [where marijuana is legal], vaporizers are growing rap…
Jeremy Berke
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An incredible video shows what we would see if the planets replaced the moon. But that would turn Earth into a volcanic hellscape.
"We could expect a similar scenario on Earth. Initially, Earth's mantle and crust would be gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A city in China wants to launch an artificial moon into orbit by 2020 - here's what would happen if Earth really did have two moons
But not all destruction would happen on Earth. The combined pull of the planet and the original moo…
Gina Echevarria,Shira Polan
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful it discovered sand storms on a planet 235 trillion miles away
NASA's Webb telescope peered at clouds on the distant "super Jupiter" planet, and detected tiny san…