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  Wobbly Planets Could Reveal Earth-Like Moons

  December 11, 2008 — Moons outside our Solar System with the potential to support life have just become much easier to detect. Astronomers have found that such moons can be revealed by looking at wobbles in the velocity ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Deep Interior Of Neptune, Uranus And Earth May Contain Some Solid Ice

  September 23, 2008 — The deep interior of Neptune, Uranus and Earth may contain some solid ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar System
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  Comets Throw Light On Solar System's Beginnings

  September 8, 2008 — A new picture of the composition of comets is emerging. The early solar system is commonly believed to have been formed from a cold outer region and a hot inner region, which did not exchange ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Space Telescopes
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  Space Exploration
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  Astronomers Discover Missing Link For Origin Of Comets

  September 4, 2008 — Astronomers have found an unusual object whose backward and tilted orbit around the Sun may clarify the origins of certain comets. In the first discovery of its kind, researchers from Canada, France ... > full story
• Sun
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  Astronomers Find Unusual New Denizen Of The Solar System

  August 19, 2008 — A "minor planet" with the prosaic name 2006 SQ372 is just over two billion miles from Earth, a bit closer than the planet Neptune. But this lump of ice and rock is beginning the return leg of a ... > full story
• Space Missions
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  NASA
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  Voyager Squashes View Of Solar System

  July 3, 2008 — Scientists using data from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft have observed the bubble of solar wind surrounding the solar system is not round, but has a squashed shape, according to recent data published ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
  Stars
  Kuiper Belt
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Solar System
   
  

  Trio Of Super-Earths: Harvest Of Low-Mass Exoplanets Discovered With HARPS

  June 16, 2008 — European astronomers have announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they have found a triple system of ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Pluto
  Astronomy
   
  

  Hunt For Superearth Planets Underway

  June 4, 2008 — NASA's EPOXI mission, which uses the Deep Impact spacecraft, has begun its search for "super Earth" ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar System
  Sun
  Astronomy
  Solar Flare
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  Physicist Reads Solar System's History In Grains Of Comet Dust

  January 3, 2008 — Four years ago, NASA's Stardust spacecraft chased down a comet and collected grains of dust blowing off its nucleus. When the spacecraft Comet Wild-2 returned, comet dust was shipped to scientists ... > full story
• Solar System
  Sun
  Solar Flare
  Extrasolar Planets
  Neptune
  Nebulae
   

  Solving Solar System Quandaries Is Simple: Just Flip-Flop The Position Of Uranus And Neptune

  December 11, 2007 — The planets in our solar system weren't always in the order they are today. Four billion years ago, early in the solar system's evolution, Uranus and Neptune switched places, according to new work by ... > full story

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