A highly stylized rendition of our solar system NASA/JPL If someone asked which planet was closest to Earth, you’d be pretty certain — it’s Venus. We measure distances in the solar system in terms of ...
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98% of supposed water worlds may be lava planets hiding in plain sight
For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...
Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...
(THE CONVERSATION) The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this ...
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