Explore Planets
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Do you know what a planet is? Guess what... astronomers are not quite sure what a planet is! ...
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Mercury, the planet nearest the Sun, is the second smallest planet in the solar system. Only ...
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Fair but inhospitable Venus, a "Sister" planet to the Earth that is very different from our ...
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Earth, our home planet, is a beautiful blue and white ball when seen from space. ...
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Mars, Earth's outer neighbor, is the fourth planet from the Sun. Mars' bright appearance and ...
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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. When approached from afar, its fantastic ...
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Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, has the most spectacular set of rings in the solar system. ...
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Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has its spin axis almost in the plane of its orbit ...
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Neptune, the eighth and furthest planet from the Sun, is a very cold place. Its bluish color ...
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In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved a new classification scheme for ...
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Did you know?
Did you know that there is a
strange hexagon in the atmosphere at the northern pole of Saturn?
Do you know how Neptune was discovered?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
Do you know what this word or phrase means?
PleistocenexPleistocene : The time period between about 10,000 years before present and about 1,650,000 years before present.
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Research Highlights
Scientists in South Africa have discovered two fossil skeletons that are about two million years old. These skeletons are of a young male and adult female of a species that had never been found before....
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