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7 Surprising Facts About Pluto
One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...
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Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two stars
After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers an alien planetary system's icy edge
At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...
James Webb Space Telescope finds icy disks on edge of alien system of planets
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered water ice in a young star amongst the solar systems debris belt.
Four planets, a new star and a meteor shower. What else will you see in the May sky?
NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...
There's growing evidence of possible life on other planets. Here's why you should still be skeptical
A team of researchers has recently claimed they have discovered a gas called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of ...
10 fascinating objects found in space
From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...
Star Trek’s William Shatner wants to use Elon Musk’s political power to make Pluto a planet again
The International Astronomical Union, which reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006, is the arbiter of such ...
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Webb telescope finds water ice around distant star for the first time
Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...
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There’s growing evidence of possible life on other planets – here’s why you should still be sceptical
K2-18b has a radius 2.6 times that of Earth ... It could also be a Neptune-like “gas dwarf” planet, with a small core shrouded in a thick layer of gas and ices. Both of these options would ...
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Four planets, a new star and a meteor shower. What else will you see in the May sky?
When you look at the night sky in May, you won’t just find stars and a moon, you’ll find four planets, a chance of ... giant star with a smaller white dwarf star orbiting closely around ...