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The solar system has been the subject of numerous studies till date. An interesting discovery made by Voyager space crafts found that the solar system is dented. This discovery has been made from the ‘edge’ of the solar system. The edge of the...
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A pinkish tract of bedrock on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, formed 4.28 billion years ago, not long after the...
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The 400 light-years away open cluster in the constellation of Taurus and among the nearest to the Earth — Pleiades — seems to be ever happening, now that...
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The solar system is something that still remains a mystery for us. Our little minds are still busy exploring the mere origin of this vast universe. Yet, when a piece of...
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These images of Jupiter’s intensely volcanic moon, Io, taken five months apart, show the results of a titanic eruption, 400-kilometers (250 miles) across over...
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New analysis of the Red Planet\’s terrain using NASA\’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Global Surveyor spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be...
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An icy, unknown world might lurk in the distant reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto, according to a new computer model.
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Researchers said they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.
They said...
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At its closest approach, Solar Probe will be 7 million kilometers from the sun, witnessing the Sun at 23 times wider than what we see it from Earth. The vessel will...
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As astronomers become more adept at hunting for, and finding, exoplanets orbiting stars beyond the Solar System, international astronomers have figured out just what we...
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“It could happen almost any time now. We now have the technological capability to identify Earth-like planets around the smallest stars.”
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Is there a genocidal countdown built into the motion of our solar system? Recent work at Cardiff University suggests that our system’s orbit through the Milky...
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Astronomers have discovered a distant “twin” solar system which looks very similar to our own.
So far researchers have identified two planets very similar...
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“In a very short time, we are going to be able to see a planet with the same mass as the Earth, although it’s going to be in an orbit much closer to its...
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Heavenly bodies like Sun, Moon and stars have always remained as mysterious and startling for all of us as everybody wanna explore and know about the mysticism and...
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If you are on hunt for some inimitable thing that could offer exceptionally accurate details about the workings of our solar system, you need to halt and take a look at...
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The universe is a complex system of uncertainties and mysteries that no one till date has been able to crack. A watchmaker has made things easy for you to understand...
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Whenever we think about the planet we are inhibiting, a large massive body roaming around the sun comes to amaze us. However, Astrophysics are out to explore similar...
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Astronomers and Space scientists who have contributed greatly in the exploration of 28 new planets encircling different stars (just like Sun) have opined that our Solar...
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Yet another new discovery of a planet has been made after its 14 ‘perhaps’ smaller siblings are spotted beyond our solar system. Unlike the other gas giants...
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It was then the space physicists anticipated the long-sought discovery of the source of anomalous cosmic rays, when Voyager 1 finally crossed the “termination...
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