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Saturn’s moon Titan has liquid methane lakes and seas.

Titan is the only body in our solar system besides Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface. However, instead of water, its lakes and seas are filled with liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. It even has a methane cycle similar to Earth's water cycle, with methane rain and rivers.

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There’s a planet covered in lava oceans with winds seven times the speed of sound.

K2-141b is a planet so hot that it has oceans of molten rock and supersonic winds made of...

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There’s a planet covered in burning ice.

Gliese 436 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet, is covered in a form of water ice that remains solid despite...

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There’s a planet that orbits its star every 18 hours.

WASP-19b orbits so close to its star that a year on this planet lasts just 18 hours. This...

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