All posts tagged "Solar System"
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1.5KScience NewsSpace Rock With Diamonds May Have Come From Long-Lost Planet
A space rock containing diamonds that exploded in Earth’s atmosphere back in 2008 was part of a planet that was lost in...
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1.0KScience NewsIt’s Literally Raining Diamonds On Uranus
Uranus could be the richest planet in the Solar System – at least, as far as diamonds are concerned. Scientists have long...
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1.4KScience NewsThere Could Be A Tenth Planet Lurking On The Outskirts Of The Solar System
There just might be a tenth planet in the solar system. Scientists have found evidence that an unseen planet is lurking around...
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1.6KScience NewsNew Dwarf Planet Located Far From Pluto
There’s a new dwarf planet in the solar system to join Pluto and a number of others. Discovered by University of Michigan...
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1.9KScience NewsJuno Completes First And Closest Jupiter Flyby
NASA has reached Jupiter and made its first and closest flyby Saturday. There is a total of 36 flybys planned for the...
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1.7KScience NewsJuno Probe Captures First-Ever Video Of Jupiter’s Moons Moving
NASA’s Juno probe famously made it to Jupiter on July 4, and in the time since, has given scientists – and the...
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2.5KScience NewsDid Jupiter Eject The Ninth Planet From Our Solar System?
Astronomers have suspected that there was once a fifth giant planet in addition to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Something caused that...
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1.6KScience NewsNASA Confirms Closest Super-Earth’s Discovery, Just 21 Light Years Away
NASA scientists are celebrating the discovery of our solar system’s closest next-door neighbor, HD 219134b, a rocky super-Earth — classified as such because...
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1.8KScience NewsJupiter Destroyed Super-Earths In Shaping Our Solar System, Study Suggests
Research conducted by astronomers Gregory Laughlin and Konstantin Batygin suggests that our solar system’s lack of super-Earths, planets smaller than Neptune but...
