A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
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Finding Earth’s address: How astronomers located our solar system in the galaxy
Finding Earth’s exact position in the galaxy took centuries of observation and innovation. This story follows astronomers as ...
NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your ...
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This is how vast our solar system actually is
The Solar System is far larger than the neat diagrams found in textbooks. Beyond the planets lies a vast region of icy debris ...
Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...
Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...
Today (Feb. 17), an annular solar eclipse will commence its journey across a remote region of Antarctica where it will be visible to more penguins than people. The partial solar eclipse portion of the ...
WASHINGTON – Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after ...
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