It's the 10-year anniversary of the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 billion-year-old comet
On November 12 2014, Philae – the lander of the spacecraft Rosetta of the European Space Agency (ESA) – landed on a comet for ...
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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 ...
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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Opinion: Uranus was having a bad hair day. Hey, it was the '80s!
Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...