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A super-Earth beyond Mars would have made Earth nearly uninhabitable
"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Early evening string of planets
I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...
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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
Ultrawide binary objects in the Kuiper belt may not have come from the earliest solar system, research suggests
Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...
At 3 million years old, this newly discovered planet is one of the youngest, study finds
Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...
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Where would a compass point in outer space?
On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.
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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 ...
Youngest Planet Discovery Shatters Planetary Formation Theories
Researchers have discovered TIDYE-1b, a young planet only 3 million years old, rapidly orbiting its star. This finding ...
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Secret oceans could exist in our solar system; new UT model aims to find them
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The ongoing search for oceans in our solar system is taking us to Uranus ... According to NASA, all of the ...