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Venus, where a year is about 225 days.

Why is Venus so different from Earth?

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

Earthworm robots could help astronomers explore other worlds

Zodiacal light and how to see it: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

Exploring the solar system through space art

Plumes of water ice can be seen spraying near the south pole Enceladus. More than 30 jets of different sizes were captured in this image taken as the Cassini spacecraft flew through the jets on Nov. 21, 2009. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Science, Solar System

Scientists map out the future of solar system exploration

Cosmic fossils: What meteorites reveal about our solar system

Solar System, Stars

Ask Astro: Does our Oort Cloud overlap with Alpha Centauri’s?

Finding Neptune: How we discovered the eighth planet

Cosmology, Solar System

Earth Is spinning faster now than it was 50 years ago

Exoplanet Earth: What our world tells us about the cosmos

Milky Way, Stars

The 1,000-light-year-wide cosmic bubble around Earth

Take a tour of the solar system’s planets