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In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...
The curious minds at What If question whether Jupiter's atmosphere could explode from something as small as a match.
People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...
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What if Earth suddenly expanded to be as massive and large as Jupiter, the gas giant? This hypothetical scenario would lead to extraordinary changes in our planet’s environment, structure, and life ...
Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...
With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...
Naturally, the aurora on our solar system's largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own Northern lights.
In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...
Described by Capture the Atlas as an "extraordinary milestone," the image One in a Billion, was captured by NASA astronaut ...
The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.
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