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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 ...
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What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?
"This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...
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What If Kepler 22-b Was in Our Solar System?
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New Telescope Could Potentially Identify Planet X
Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...
Asteroid grains shed light on the outer solar system's origins
Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...
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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
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Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Our solar system ...
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
Evidence for solar system's mystery Planet X is growing
In January 2016, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown announced research that provided evidence for a planet about 1.5 times the size of Earth in ...