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Only slightly larger than Earth's moon, Mercury is the smallest planet, even smaller than Jupiter's moon, Ganymede...
Asteroids, also called "minor planets" or "planetoids" are small, rocky, airless worlds left over from the formation of planets...
In the depths of the dark, frigid outer solar system, sub surface oceans have been confirmed within many of the moons of...
Small, icy worlds, orbiting largely outside the orbit of Neptune, in highly elliptical orbits....
The fastest coronal mass ejection was recorded on August 4, 1972 and traveled from the sun to earth in 14.6 hours - a speed of nearly 10 million kilometers per hour!