Saturn is losing its rings at 'worst-case-scenario' rate

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New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 and 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn's magnetic field.
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Alien imposters: Planets with oxygen don't necessarily have life

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Lab simulations nix the common wisdom that atmospheric oxygen and organic compounds are good evidence that a planet harbors life.
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Narrowing the universe in the search for life

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In the search for life on other planets, scientists traditionally have looked for a world with water. But a geophysicist now wonders if we should look to rocks instead.
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Discovered: The most-distant solar system object ever observed

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A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our solar system. It is the first known solar system object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the sun.
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