If you think of the eight planets as members of Earth’s family—friendly cousins who swing by regularly and never cause any grief—then asteroids are the total strangers lurking in the neighborhood. And like strangers, their visits aren’t always welcome. Asteroids are the rubble left over from the solar system’s formation roughly 4.6 billion years ago.
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Check out these mysterious flaming snowballs in the sky.
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Get the facts on Uranus, a planet with a sideways axis.
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Get the facts on Venus, sometimes called Earth’s twin.
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Get the facts on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon!
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Learn about Earth’s neighborhood.
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Learn about the effects of excess light coming from cities at night.
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Get the facts on Mars, also known as the red planet.
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Roughly 140 natural satellites, called moons, orbit the various planets in our solar system, but there’s only one known simply as “the moon.”
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Uncover the secrets of one of the world’s oldest civilizations.
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