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Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

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The first exoplanet ever discovered in 1995 was what we now call a "hot Jupiter," a planet as massive as Jupiter with an orbital period of just a few days. Today, hot Jupiters are thought to have ...

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Trapped in a hell he helped make, a lone hacker aboard a space station far from home sneaks and fights his way through horrible mutants and killer robots in order to take down the monstrous artificial ...

In the bigger picture, “down” could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.