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The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

• Saturn, of magnitude +1.1, 16° to the upper left of Venus. The brighter planet will pass 2.2° north of Saturn on Jan. 18; Saturn will be nearly 11° below Venus on Jan. 31. A telescope reveals Saturn ...

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NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the ...

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