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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
The best way to find planet nine might be hundreds of tiny telescopes
Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...
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New Telescope Could Potentially Identify Planet X
Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...
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Earth’s second moon discovered
Unlike Earth’s Moon, this mini-moon is a temporary visitor from deep space, poised to return to its solar ... simulation ...
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Solar System’s True Center Isn’t the Sun, Animation Shows
It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...
MIT scientists study particles from distant asteroid for clues to the outer solar system’s origin
We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
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Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
Our solar system ... professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, discovered another small world called Eris in the Kuiper Belt — a vast ring of icy objects beyond Neptune’s orbit that also ...
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Ancient asteroid grains reveal hidden magnetic past of our solar system
MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.
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NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom and is still tumbling in Earth orbit (photo)
Four cameras aboard NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft ... its sails in Earth orbit in late 2010, and LightSail-2, a mission operated by the nonprofit Planetary Society ...
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Why is Pluto no longer a planet?
In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit ... it was long considered as the solar system’s ninth planet.