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Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the largest of the terrestrial planets. It is the only known place inhabited by living things and the...
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Jupiter
Jupiter (JPL 599) is the fifth planet: a rapidly rotating gas giant with a hydrogen-helium atmosphere, an intense magnetosphere, moons, and faint...
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Mars
Mars (499) is the fourth planet from the Sun: a rocky, cold, dusty desert world with a very thin atmosphere, seasons, polar ice caps, extinct vol...
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Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest planet in the solar system. JPL identifier 199 corresponds to a rocky world with a 2439...
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Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in the solar system: an ice giant discovered in 1846 through mathematical predictions. It has a dyn...
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the solar system. It is a gas giant composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, kno...
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Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, an ice giant that rotates on its side. It has 13 faint rings; NASA lists 29 recognized moons as of Aug...
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Venus
Venus is a cloud-shrouded planet, a nearby planetary neighbor of Earth, and NASA describes it as the hottest planet in the solar system. Its carb...
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Juno redefines Jupiter’s shape by accounting for its winds
A study published in Nature Astronomy uses radio occultation measurements from the Juno spacecraft to derive Jupiter’s shape while accounting for...
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NASA reached 6,000 confirmed exoplanets: what the count reveals
On September 17, 2025, NASA announced that its count had reached 6,000 confirmed exoplanets. The figure marked a milestone in a catalog that adds...
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NASA surpasses 6,000 confirmed exoplanets: what the catalog reveals
NASA puts the number of confirmed exoplanets at more than 6,000 and estimates that billions exist in the galaxy. The catalog makes it possible to...
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TESS found a super-Jupiter in its archives nearly 40,000 light-years away
Gaia23bra b has 1.6 times Jupiter’s mass and orbits an orange dwarf star at a distance similar to that between Jupiter and the Sun. NASA explains...
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Bright clouds reveal Neptune’s dark vortices
Neptune’s dark vortices are high-pressure systems that are difficult to observe directly. Hubble detects them especially well at blue wavelengths...
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Planet Nine: What Kuiper Belt Orbits Reveal and What the Hypothesis Proposes
The apparent clustering of some orbits of icy Kuiper Belt objects led Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown to propose the possible existence of a di...
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Two planets forming around WISPIT 2: a window on the birth of planetary systems
The observation of two planets forming around WISPIT 2 links the search for young worlds to a larger question: how planetary systems, including o...
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Planets under observation: what NASA’s official sources show
The official sources supplied place planets and exoplanets at the heart of several NASA research lines. They also describe a source seen by Webb...