solar system
Citizen scientists find remarkable exoplanet, name it after Harry Potter character
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Citizen scientists searching through data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a record-breaking world, and gave it a ...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far side of the moon
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An unusual asteroid ...
What would happen if the moon disappeared?
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The moon has been bound to Earth for the vast majority of its 4.5 billion-year dance around the sun. Astrophysicists speculate that ...
Ice-penetrating radar will help JUICE and other spacecraft find water beyond Earth
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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) left Earth a year ago, embarking on a mission to explore Jupiter’s potential ocean moons — ...
Earth’s weird ‘quasi-moon’ Kamo’oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
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Earth’s “quasi-moon” was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar system’s history, a new study suggests. Kamo’oalewa, ...
Unprecedented images reveal jaw-dropping features of Jupiter’s ‘tortured moon’
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Close flybys of ...
Jupiter’s violent moon Io has been the solar system’s most volcanic body for around 4.5 billion years
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The solar system’s most volcanic body, the moon of Jupiter Io, has been in turmoil for at least 4.57 billion years, right ...
NASA spots incredible pink ‘flames’ pulsing out from behind the total solar eclipse – what are they?
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A NASA photographer captured spellbinding images that appear to show majestic fuchsia-pink flames bursting forth from behind the solar eclipse. Snapper Keegan Barber ...
Snapchat turns off controversial ‘Solar System’ feature by default after bad press
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Image Credits: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel; / TechCrunch Less than a week after The Wall St. Journal reported on how a Snapchat ...
Why NASA is launching rockets into the solar eclipse path
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Eclipses inspire awe ...
