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Planet Rings Could Be Behind the Formation of Solar System Satellites

Two researchers have recently proposed the first ever model explaining how the great majority of regular satellites in our ...  > full story

Dwarf Planet Makemake Lacks Atmosphere: Distant Frigid World Reveals Its Secrets for First Time

Dwarf planet Makemake is about two thirds of the size of Pluto, and travels around the Sun in a distant path that lies beyond that of ...  > full story

Comet Collisions Every Six Seconds Explain 17-Year-Old Stellar Mystery

Every six seconds, for many millions of years, comets have been colliding near a star visible to the naked eye, astronomers report. ...  > full story

Pluto's Moons and Possible Rings May Be Hazards: New Horizons and the Gauntlet It May Encounter in 2015

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now almost seven years into its 9.5-year journey across the solar system to explore ...  > full story

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Astrophysicists used the Spitzer Space Telescope to scan a cluster of about 500 stars for evidence of a collision similar to the one that produced. ...  > full story

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