Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for decades, but when it reached the edge of the solar system, it found something ...
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Uranus And Neptune May Not Be "Ice Giants" But The Solar System's First "Rocky Giants"
“Overall, our findings challenge the conventional classification of Uranus and Neptune as ’ice giants’ and underscore the ...
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Which planets are the youngest and oldest in our solar system?
There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?
Since the 1970s, Voyager 1 has been making groundbreaking discoveries. But its journey is far from over, and it's still ...
We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these ...
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Solar system’s asteroid belt slowly disappearing, houses over 1.9 million large rocks
Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter is an enormous ring of space rocks. The region, known as the asteroid belt, is home to an estimated 1.9 million asteroids that are larger than 1 kilometer in diameter ...
The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...
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Space.com on MSNStrange 'puffy' alien world breaks every rule for how planets should behave
A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?
The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...
Voyager 1 is about to go where no human-carrying spaceship has gone before. June 15, 2012— -- Fifty-five years after humans first escaped the bounds of Earth and launched a satellite into orbit, ...
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We Asked Astronomers What Their Favorite Thing in Space Is
Even astronomers who study peculiar outer space objects have their favorites. Here are some interstellar bodies that have won ...
From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...
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