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From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

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What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

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Saturn鈥檚 rings may have formed after a huge collision with Titan

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composite picture of Mars

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Mars’s gravity may help control Earth鈥檚 cycle of ice ages

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BepiColombo mission will start to unpick Mercury’s secrets in 2026

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This is a false-color composite image of the Fomalhaut System taken with the Hubble telescope's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument in 2010 and 2012. The black circle at the center of the image blocks out the light from the bright star, allowing reflected light from the belt and planet to be photographed.

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Two asteroids crashed around a nearby star, solving a cosmic mystery

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A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

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Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

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Moon Crossing Face of Earth

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Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth鈥檚 history

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artwork of a section of the Kuiper Belt

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We鈥檝e found an unexpected structure in the solar system鈥檚 Kuiper belt

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the 鈥渋nner kernel鈥� of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of the solar system 鈥� including the movement of Neptune

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A distant comet is forming new rings while we watch in real time

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Ceres may have been habitable at just half a billion years old

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