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On the other hand, Neptune, the farthest planet from the sun, takes about 165 Earth years! These varying revolution times are due to each planet's distance from the sun and its orbital speed.

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Pluto, our planet of profound change and ultimate reckoning, has set up shop in Aquarius, and the energy of the dwarf daddy of death’s transit will have a weighty effect on all of us.

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Meet 33 innovative leaders who are using their voices and talents to tackle the planet’s most pressing issues. For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

The Industrial Revolution, which took place between 1750 ... something new appeared above the surface of the planet, a thick oily spectre, hanging in the air, for longer than the cooking smoke ...