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Anna Demming

Scientists discover secret 'symmetries' that protect Earth from the chaos of space

An illustration of all the solar system planets arranged in an arc around the sun

Earth probably shouldn't exist. 

That's because the orbits of the inner solar system planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — are chaotic, and models have suggested that these inner planets should have crashed into each other by now. And yet, that hasn't happened.

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