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UNCOVERED: Earths - Caught on Camera

How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing their thick atmospheres.

Space

Scientists discover super-Earth exoplanets are more common in the universe than we thought

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like exoplanets could be more common than we thought.

Space

How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

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No, Crisis On Infinite Earths Wasn’t Influenced By Avengers: Infinity War, But It Did Borrow From Another Sci-Fi Classic

Although Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One's ending is reminiscent of Infinity War, it turns out another sci-fi classic inspired it.

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10 solar storms that blew us away in 2023

The sun has been spitting out more frequent and intense solar storms this year as it approaches solar maximum. Here are some of the biggest.

LiveScience

Gigantic 'hole' in the sun wider than 60 Earths is spewing superfast solar wind right at us

A monstrous dark patch, known as a coronal hole, recently appeared near the sun's equator. The temporary gap enables unusually fast solar wind to race toward Earth.

LiveScience

Black Hole Found Gobbling Up Three Earths’ Worth Of Matter Every 25 Days

The discovery provides a ‘missing link’ in our knowledge of black holes disrupting orbiting stars.

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A Black Hole is Ripping this Star Apart, One Planet-sized Bite at a Time

The black hole steals three Earths' worth of mass every few weeks, making for a slow cosmic feast for the black hole.

Inverse

"Super-Earths" Study Reveals Weird New Oceans With Potential for Life

Earth-type and icy moons are what we know best, but these worlds outweigh them by far. But some may be melted water from exotic ices.

Inverse

Enormous 'hole' in the sun's atmosphere will trigger stunning auroras Friday

An enormous coronal hole wider than 20 Earths has opened in the sun's atmosphere, and NOAA experts predict a moderate geomagnetic storm Friday (March 24) as a result.

LiveScience

5 Big Ways Crisis On Infinite Earths Ruined The Arrowverse

Crisis on Infinite Earths was the Arrowverse's most ambitious crossover and, without question, one that irreparably ruined the franchise.

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37 years ago, DC changed superheroes forever — and inspired the MCU's greatest achievement

DC’s marketing for the original 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' promised a lot ahead of the comic’s 1985 debut. And for once, the crossover lived up to the hype, changing DC’s comics universe – and superheroes themselves – in ways that still reverberate 37 years later.

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Curious Kids: how likely is it that there are parallel universes and other Earths?

How likely is it that there are other Earths or that the multiverse exists? – Tasneem, aged 16, Indore, India

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