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Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

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In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

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Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.