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24 Jul
Somewhere in the Milky Way tonight, drifting through the darkness between the stars, there are roughly 20 planets for every sun that burns - trillions of worlds, most thought to be ejected from the solar systems where they were born and now wandering the gal (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
Somewhere in the dried bed of an ancient Martian river, the Perseverance rover has been drilling into rocks for more than four years - and last June, NASA scientists announced that two of them contain the same complex carbon-based molecules that form th (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
Saudi Arabia knows the day is coming when the world stops needing oil - and its Public Investment Fund is a bet placed by one generation on behalf of the next, spending the last decades of oil revenue on hotels, football leagues, and entire cities in the empt (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
Saturn's moon Titan is so large it outsizes the planet Mercury, making it the second-biggest moon in the solar system after Jupiter's Ganymede (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with hundreds of active volcanoes that can shoot sulphur plumes more than 500 kilometres above its surface - a landscape so extreme that early Voyager scientists initially mistook the p (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
Skylab cost roughly $2.2 billion, hosted nine astronauts across three missions and remained in orbit for just over six years - before breaking apart over Western Australia, where its remains became museum exhibits, Lucite-encased souvenirs and, according t (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn's moon Titan - the only world besides Earth with rivers, lakes and rain, though there the rain is liquid methane (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
The computers guiding Voyager 1 through interstellar space process roughly 8,000 instructions per second; a modern smartphone processes more than 14 billion - yet that 1970s machine has operated for nearly half a century, farther from Earth than any spa (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
Scientists think at least two of Uranus's moons - Titania and Oberon - may harbour liquid water oceans beneath their icy crusts, kept warm not by the sun but by radioactive decay deep in their interiors. If true, they join a growing list of ocean worlds in the sol (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
The Grand Canyon looks vast until you set it beside Valles Marineris on Mars, a single rift so long it would stretch clear across the United States and in places plunges up to seven kilometres deep, making it the largest canyon in the solar system (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
Finding no evidence of life in Enceladus’s ocean could be almost as scientifically important as finding it - because a world with liquid water, internal heat, phosphorus and complex organic chemistry but no detectable biology would suggest that the ingredient (Space Daily)24 Jul
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24 Jul
At the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the air is so thin and so dry that astronomers can see light from galaxies billions of light-years away with a clarity impossible at sea level - which is why 11 countries have built 13 major telescopes on what is technically a (Space Daily)24 Jul
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23 Jul
How does a planet 4.5 billion kilometres from the Sun, where daylight is roughly 900 times dimmer than on Earth, whip up the fastest winds in the entire solar system? (Space Daily)23 Jul
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23 Jul
Astronomers searching for alien life aimed the James Webb Space Telescope at K2-18 b, a potentially ocean-bearing world 124 light-years away, and found tentative signs of gases associated on Earth with marine microbes - triggering months of debate over (Space Daily)23 Jul
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