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The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

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A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

Wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory curated the final selection for the "NatGeoYourShotOurHome" challenge from thousands of ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from ...

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