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Our Solar System Could Get a Second Chance Billions of Years From Now
Earth’s days are numbered. Not on a timescale that matters to any of us, but numbered all the…
Planet Nine? Our Big Ass Sky May Have Another Planet
Pluto is going to be angry when it reads the research out of CalTech. Our solar system could…
Kepler Animation Shows Just How Fast Most Exoplanets Orbit Their Star
The first phase of the Kepler mission discovered thousands of potential exoplanets. 1,031 of these were confirmed while…
Meet V774104 – One of the Solar System’s Most Distant Objects
It took more than 9 years for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to travel more than 3 billion miles…
The Sheer Scope of Our Solar System Illustrated Three Different Ways
We all know our solar system is big. It took three years for the Voyager probes to reach…
Could There Be Undiscovered Planets in Our Solar System? One Study Suggests So
A new study is out saying there could be at least two undiscovered planets in the outer reaches…
This One Meteorite Tells Us How Our Solar System Was Formed
How planetary systems evolved so quickly has been difficult for scientists to answer. Gravity isn’t enough to explain…
Ancient Water. Earth’s Water Older Than the Sun
There has been a long debate on whether the solar system’s water comes from ice ionized during the…