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Seven Earth-sized planets discovered just 40 light years away
The system has both the largest number of Earth-sized planets yet found and the largest number of worlds that could support liquid water on their surfaces
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New Horizons Update: Spacecraft returns final bits of data from Pluto flyby
The NASA mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from its flyby – arrived safely on Earth
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Hubble spots giant ‘hot cannonballs’ shooting from star
The plasma balls are zooming so fast through space it would take only 30 minutes for them to travel from Earth to the Moon
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Young magnetic star likely to be the slowest ever detected
Astronomers have found evidence for what is likely one of the most extreme pulsars, or rotating neutron stars, found
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Three giant planets discovered in orbit around Sun’s twins
The findings may help explain the influence that giant planets like Jupiter have over a Solar System’s architecture
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Astronomers watch Io’s atmosphere collapse during a Jupiter eclipse
As its parent planet casts a shadow on its surface, the moon’s atmosphere has been found to fall down
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The Earth from afar: Ten incredible images of our planet from space
Take a look at some stunning images of the Earth that have been snapped over the past five decades, including the latest picture of our world recently taken by the Cassini spacecraft from Saturn.