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Saturn’s rings may be far older than we thought

The age of the rings that encircle Saturn is under dispute thanks to calculations that show they could have been formed billions – rather than millions – of years ago

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Saturn and its rings, as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft

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Distant dwarf planet Makemake might have a surprising ice volcano

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New Scientist recommends Brian Cox's new series, Solar System

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2T6AF4B the planet Saturn photographed with an amateur telescope

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Now is a great time to see Saturn in all its ringed glory

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Computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus including the volcano Maat Mons.

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Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year

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Could we take the entire solar system on a voyage through space?

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Could we set Uranus on fire to steal its hidden diamonds?

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A new formula for defining a planet still keeps Pluto out of the club

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This artist?s concept takes a fanciful approach to imagining small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black holes would have a difficult time forming the accretion disks that make them visible here. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14524/

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How tiny black holes would behave inside the sun, Earth – and us

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What would happen if Earth was the centre of the solar system?

Geocentrism, the idea that everything in the universe revolves around Earth, has long been disproven, but this episode of Dead Planets Society is bringing it back with cataclysmic consequences

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Mercury may have a layer of diamond beneath its grey surface

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Jupiter as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may have disappeared and reformed

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How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Earth's orbit?

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What would happen if we pulled out Mars’s iron core with a magnet?

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