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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 ...
Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...
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If The Sun's Gravity Is So Strong, How Come All The Planets Are Moving Away From It?
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...
World could cross red line for planetary warming by decade’s end, study finds
The release of planet-heating chemicals into the atmosphere is set to hit a record high in 2024 — with “no sign” of a peak in ...
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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 ...
Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
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How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...
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Why is Pluto not considered a planet?
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
How many additional exoplanets are in known systems?
One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 ...
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 ...
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
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