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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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Earth, Mars, Venus — and a long-lost planet — may have once 'waltzed' in perfect harmony around the sunNew simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once orbited in mathematical harmony around the infant sun.
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The hunt for 'Planet Nine': Why there could still be something massive at the edge of the solar systemThe debate about an undiscovered Planet X or Planet Nine has been going on for more than 100 years.
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When did our solar system's planets form? Discovery of tiny meteorite may challenge the timelineAnalysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.
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New dwarf planet 'Ammonite' could upend the existence of Planet NineA newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be another nail in the coffin for the Planet Nine hypothesis.
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Scientists find Uranus is surprisingly warm, heating up the case for a new planetary missionScientists have found that Uranus emits its own internal heat, contradicting data from NASA's Voyager 2 probe nearly four decades ago.
