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Mercury: The Swift Planet

By: Angel Lobos Lima, Journalist
Did you know that Mercury is the second densest planet in our solar system, being right after Earth? Learn more about planet Mercury and its interesting characteristics.
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Movement of the Moon and Sun around a flat Earth. (CC BY-SA 4.0)

If The Earth Was Flat

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist
We have always known that the Earth is a sphere. But what if we were wrong? What if the flat Earth community was right and the Earth was actually flat? Spoiler Alert: Very Bad!
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Artist's impression of COROT-7b (in foreground), likely a lava exoplanet (CC BY 4.0)

Different Types Of Planets

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist
The first four planets in our solar system are known as "Terrestrial" planets, while the outer four planets are known as "Gas Giants". As for the possible quadrillions of exoplanets in our universe, it is not as simple as classifying them as "terrestrial" or "gas giant" because some of them are so vastly different to our solar system. Because of this, astronomers produce new scientific terms to sort out the unusual exoplanets they have discovered.
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Dark dunes on Titan could be made from comets.

By: William Bohoney, Journalist
The vast dunes on Titan seem to have been formed by comets striking the moon. The proposed scenario could explain the presence of similar material observed on other worlds, said Bottke.
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If The Earth Had Rings

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist
Earth is very well known for not having rings, but what if it did? What if during the 4.8-billion-year long history, from the Theia collision to today, the sky was adorned with beautiful crescent rings & a glaring moon? Spoiler Alert: Not good!
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Possible Neptune-Sized 9th planet located in the farthest reaches of our Solar System (CC BY SA 4.0)

Planet X

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist

Planet X, or Planet 9 as we're gonna refer to, is a possible Neptune-sized object in a elliptical orbit around the sun so far away its orbit could take 10,000 to 20,000 Earth years to complete, recent...

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Artist’s concept of the red planet Mars with rings (CC-BY 2.0)

Mars Will Soon Have Rings

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist
One planet we'd least expect to have rings would be Mars, Turns out Mars will be getting his own set of rings like Saturn. This wouldn't be the first time Mars has rings or moons for that matter.
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"Planet" by garysan97 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse.

YZ Ceti B

By: Aiman Ullah, Journalist
The planet was discovered in 2017 by the radial velocity method, [...] YZ Ceti b has a mass similar to that of Earth, and its orbit is located within the habitable zone of its star, which means it receives just the right amount of heat to potentially support liquid water on its surface.
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Kepler-442b

By: Hamza Naeem, Journalist
Kepler-442b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 2.36 Earth's, it takes 112.3 days to complete one orbit of its star.
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This artist’s impression compares the seven planets orbiting the ultra-cool red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 to the Earth at the same scale. New observations, when combined with very sophisticated analysis, have now yielded good estimates of the densities of all seven of the Earth-sized planets and suggest that they are rich in volatile materials, probably water. They are shown to the same scale but not in the correct relative positions.

Trappist-1 System

By: Ariana Zepeda Del Cid, Journalist
Studies also show it has enough oxygen and a good atmosphere density level. The only problem with inhabiting it is its distance from Earth.
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Plasma Ball Illustration

Renewable VS. Nonrenewable Energy

By: Mathias Brook, Journalist
Energy is the critical resource that powers our world and enables many activities essential to our daily lives. Primary energy sources fall into two categories: renewable and non-renewable.
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"Dwarf Planet Ceres" by NASA Goddard Photo and Video is marked with CC BY 2.0.

Ceres: A Planet That May Hold Water

By: Jason Reznikov, Journalist
Scientists believe that Ceres may have held a liquid ocean in the past.
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