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The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...

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New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...