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Our solar system's asteroid belt is slowly disappearingA new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought.
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'Completely unexplained': James Webb telescope finds strange 'dark beads' in Saturn's atmosphereThe beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions between its magnetosphere and atmosphere.
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Why does Pluto have such a weird orbit?The dwarf planet has a strange orbit and tilt — what gives?
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'A genuine surprise': Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu once had 'flowing water' that transformed its insidesA new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, possibly leftover from the impact that created it.
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Where could alien life exist in our solar system?The solar system has eight planets and hundreds of moons. Could extraterrestrials live on any of them?
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Cataclysmic crash with neighboring planet may be the reason there's life on Earth today, new studies hintEarly Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint.
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James Webb telescope images reveal there's something strange with interstellar comet 3I/ATLASNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made its first observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing that the comet appears to be unusually rich in carbon dioxide.
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Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope revealsUranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.
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NASA's Hubble telescope reveals most detailed photos of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS to dateNew images from the Hubble telescope show an extrasolar entity as it hurtles through our solar system at speeds of more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h).
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