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Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System
A decade of observations with the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has uncovered the existence of an intriguing cluster of objects ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth at Over 29,000 mph
The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...
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Hidden Population of Objects Discovered Beyond Kuiper Belt in the Outer Solar System
The presence of these distant objects could offer new insights into how planets and small bodies formed and migrated in the ...
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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 ...
Solar Breakthrough: Scientists Redefine the Sun’s Elemental Blueprint
Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
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 ...
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Features of our solar system
The solar system is made up of the Sun (our ... there are millions of asteroids – rocky objects that orbit the Sun and vary in size from 1km to around 1000km. Like planets, asteroids are mostly ...
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Satellite survives impact with object in space, takes selfie to prove it (photos)
A tiny puncture discovered in the solar ... small space debris fragments orbit Earth. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates that 130 million space debris objects 0.4 to 0.4 inches in size ...