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What is the Goldilocks Zone?

By: Rae Yang, Journalist

What the goldilocks zone is, and why is it named that. Is Kepler-186f sustainable for life?

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HD 189733b

By: Rae Yang, Journalist

HD 189733b is a deep blue exoplanet that looks similar to Earth. However, it holds a dangerous environment where no organism could survive.

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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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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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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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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...

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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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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