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There Might Be a New 9th Planet in Our Solar System
Before the invention of the telescope, the world only knew of 6 planets aside from Earth, all the way to Saturn. But as technology and time progressed, we managed to see further in to the galaxy and now, there's a hypothesis that there might be ano...
Astronomers Found Another Planet That Looks Like Saturn
To think Saturn's rings were unique. Astronomers have identified a small planet with a ring system. They had previously thought such a phenomenon could only happen on large planets. Dubbed 10199 Chariklo, the planet is called Centaur. The astronomer...
The Red Dots You See Here is Where Plant Life Is Thriving
You're checking out a false color image showing plant growth across a planet in red where you'd usually expect some green. The image, captured by NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is explained...
Astrobiologers Found a Way to Detect Life on Other Planets
A team of astrobiologists have discovered a new method of detecting water... AND life on distant planets. The only problem? The telescope we need to do it won't be online until the year 2018.Heavy atmospheres keep water from drifting off the planet ...
Scientists Want to Visit a Metal Asteroid Circling The Sun
Linda Elkins-Tanton of the Carnegie Institute recently proposed a mission to visit the core of a proto-planet that was long ago stripped of its rocky outsides and cast adrift in the solar system.Asteroid 16 Psyche is much like Earth's core, but its ...
How Do You Weigh a Planet? Using Starlight Of Course!
There are no planet scales, so it is hard to weigh one. To do that, astronomers have figured out by measuring the starlight that shines through its atmosphere. MIT planetary scientists Julien de Wit and Sara Seager did just that. When an exoplanet p...
How Does NASA Know So Much About Alien Planets? [VIDEO]
NASA explains how it knows so much about space and planets. It has a lot to do with being really smart of course with the limited information it has. They explain how they are able to determine an exoplanet's size, composition and atmospheric make ...
Scientists Discover The Secrets of an Ancient Magma Ocean Deep Underground
Scientists have discovered that high pressure makes magma so dense that other rocks will sit on top of it instead of sinking in it. They did this by using an X-ray source examining some depths of 1,400 kilometers. The discovery solves the disparity ...
There Could Be 20 Billion Earth-like Planets in The Milky Way Alone [VIDEO]
What are the odds of finding a habitable planet elsewhere in the universe? Turns out, it's getting better. A new study is saying that one in five Sun-like stars has an Earth size planet in the habitable zone. That means, there could be 20 billion E...
Astronomers Found Earth's Fiery Twin
NASA astronomers have "discovered the first Earth-sized planet outside the solar system that has a rocky composition like that of Earth." Planet Kepler-78b orbits its host star every 8.5 hours, making it a blazing inferno and not suitable for life. ...
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