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  1. Planetary Science

    Solar system’s future could be bumpy

    A new study assesses the chances that two planets will collide or a planet will plunge into the sun in the next 5 billion years.

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  2. Astronomy

    Pinning down a pulsar’s age

    Reporting at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, researchers suggest some of these swirling stellar remnants are older, younger by a factor of 10.

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  3. Life

    Hummingbird pulls Top Gun stunts

    Male hummingbirds set record for extreme plunges out of the sky.

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  4. Space

    Galactic black holes may be more massive than thought

    The giant black holes at the cores of massive nearby galaxies may be two to four times heftier than estimated.