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Jupiter designed the solar system. Here's what the planet was like as a child.
Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to ...
A CubeSat propulsion system to visit near Earth objects
In recent years, humanity has visited several near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), including Ryugu (Hayabusa2) and Didymos (DART).
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Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.
The first US solar storm emergency drill did not go well
In order to respond to these threats, government agencies need to coordinate. That is where SWORM comes in. Formed in 2014 to ...
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Wandering Jupiter accounts for our unusual solar system
The new paper explains not only the “gaping hole” in our inner solar system, he said, but also certain characteristics of Earth and the other inner rocky ... course and migrate outward to its current ...
Polaris shares North Star duties with other planets in our solar system
That star, named Polaris, is the brightest in the constellation of Ursa Minor, "The Little Bear".
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More than 50 years later, a failed Soviet spacecraft is about to return to Earth
A remnant of the Soviet Venus program, Kosmos 482 has stayed aloft in in Earth's orbit for 53 years. But it may make a return ...