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When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

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Solaris promises to be a major platform for education and research, with a particular focus on academic research into the Sun ...

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The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

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Scientists have developed an AI model that accurately predicts solar flares and coronal mass ejections, significantly ...