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The solar system's greatest mystery may finally be solved
Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The story begins with a puzzle in the outer solar system. Scientists noticed that small icy bodies called Kuiper Belt Objects, ...
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Most difficult puzzles to complete under $30 on National Puzzle Day
Blast off on an exciting space adventure with your solar system puzzle. Ignite your creativity with hours of out-of-this-world fun piecing your way through the cosmos. Hawaiian Food Truck Festival ...
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NASA’s Voyager Probes Find Puzzles beyond the Solar System
Voyager 2 was the first and remains the only spacecraft to fly past Uranus and Neptune, worlds where it discovered superfast winds, more than a dozen moons and six new rings, as well as Uranus’s ...
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'There are lots of mysteries in our backyard': Revised solar system chemistry explains long-standing puzzles - MSN
Astronomers say they have figured out the true chemical makeup of our solar system, revealing that it contained much more carbon, oxygen and nitrogen than previously thought. Chiefly, the finding ...
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Interstellar Visitor May Have Scrambled Our Solar System
NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...
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How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form? - ExtremeTech
Our Solar System is full of mysteries, but if the inner planets are a puzzle, the boundary between the Solar System and interstellar space is a secondhand puzzle with half the pieces ...
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Astronomers still haven’t decided if Planet 9 is real
Almost a decade after astronomers proposed the existence of Planet 9, an unseen extra planet in the distant reaches of the solar system, they still haven’t all agreed whether it’s real or not ...
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How big is Jupiter? Study suggests gas giant was once twice as large - USA TODAY
Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet by far. It used to be twice as large: Study A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow ...
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Tackling the Puzzle of Our Solar System’s Stability
Shortly after discovering the law of gravity, Isaac Newton wondered whether it would allow our Solar System to remain stable. At face value, the problem seems trivial. The gravitational ...