Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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The Planet Under Threat of Breakdown
There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on. This new trend, ...
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Look for the moon and the planets with AstroBob
AstroBob says to look to the sky Friday evening to see the full Beaver Moon, also known as the Freezing Over Moon. You can ...
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Live Science on MSN3d
Why is Pluto not considered a planet?
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
As Trump’s win tests the world order, diplomats are fretting over what it means for the planet
America’s allies and foes alike have spent the past five days speculating about what Donald Trump’s re-election will mean for ...
Space on MSN1d
Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...
The Curious Case of Iconic Star Vega’s Missing Planets
Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...