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Mercury is the Solar System’s smallest planet, but its metallic core fills about 85…
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Saudi Arabia sits on the world's largest sand desert and yet imports construction…
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The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre per year and does not reach sexual…
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In 1994, a bushwalker rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney…
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In 1977, Carl Sagan and Frank Drake sat in a Cornell office arguing over what to…
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The Soviet Buran shuttle flew exactly once, in November 1988, completing two…
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About 46,000 objects are now tracked around Earth, and roughly 30,000 are not…
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Uranus rotates almost completely on its side, tipped by 97.77 degrees, most likely…
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For roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have…
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NASA has contracted a purpose-built spacecraft to push the International Space…
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in…
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India landed its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft near the Moon’s south pole in August 2023…
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NASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets…
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Neptune sits more than a billion kilometres farther from the Sun, yet parts of…
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