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Pluto may sport clouds of poisonous acid and flammable gases

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Pluto may sport clouds of poisonous acid and flammable gases

Wispy features spotted just above the dwarf planet’s surface might be clouds – and they seem to be made of nasty stuff

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Kepler-11 and exoplanets

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Toddler stars' baby fat kicks out almost all their exoplanets

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Strange signals from 234 stars could be ET - or human error

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Strange signals from 234 stars could be ET - or human error

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Artist's illustration depicts the interior of a low-mass star

Space

Proxima b's hyperactive star is more sun-like than thought

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Uranus might have two dark moons we've never seen before

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Uranus might have two dark moons we've never seen before

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Our universe contains 10 times more galaxies than we thought

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Our universe contains 10 times more galaxies than we thought

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Project Blue plans to send space telescope to snap nearby worlds

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Proxima b

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Failed hunt for Proxima b’s star transit leaves us in the dark

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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this image from the International Space Station and posted it to social media on Sept. 28, 2014, writing,

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Super-dim galaxy may be one of hundreds orbiting the Milky Way

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Hypothetical view of an exoplanet with two suns

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Giant hidden Jupiters may explain lonely planet systems

Undetected huge planets may have booted many of their smaller siblings, explaining why Kepler has seen so many wonky, single-planet systems

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Milky Way's baby brother caught copying its star shredding habit

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Our home spiral arm in the Milky Way is less wimpy than thought

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Space

Robot eyes are catching up with our exploding cosmos

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No, NASA hasn't changed the zodiac signs or added a new one

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