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The Search For Planet 9 Continues
We have been stuck with 8 planets in our solar system ever since Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006. This ‘injustice’ may be corrected soon though, as astronomers believe that there might …
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Why Did The Water On Mars Disappear?
The red planet has been an object of fascination to us for thousands of years. Going from a god of war to a potential alien world with alien people and large canals to our current …
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Dwarf Planet Ceres Found to Be an Ocean World
Ceres is the Asteroid belt’s largest object, making up around one third of the total mass or the entire belt. This dwarf planet is the largest remnant of what could have been a planet, had …
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Chinese Tianwen-1 Mars Mission On Track For Its July Launch
On April 24th, China has revealed the name and logo of its first independent interplanetary mission. This was done in honor of the 50th anniversary of the launch of the country’s first satellite; the DFH-1 …
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Clay on Mars Finding Hints at Once Supporting Life
NASA’s Curiosity rover has confirmed the existence of clay on Mars, suggesting that there was once water on the Red Planet. In August 2012, Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars with one of its …
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Is Pluto a Planet After All, And Should We Care?
The image above shows an oblique view of the Norgay and Hillary mountain ranges, and an extensive ice field on Pluto, as photographed by the New Horizons mission. To many people, it would seem that …
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Latest Mars Colonization Plan May Be Waste of Time and Resources
The image above shows what may turn out to be a proposed semi-permanent base on Mars, but the notion that Mars could be colonized by humans is not new, and a plethora of plans on …
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Why Pluto’s Dunes Are Similar to Those on Earth
The image above, taken by the New Horizons space probe in July of 2015, shows some detail of an extensive dune field (lower right) that abuts onto a major mountain range (upper left) on the …
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Proof Found That Venus and Jupiter Affect Earth’s Climate
The image above shows rock formations within the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. It was from deep within the rock formations shown here that scientists extracted a 518-metre-long core sample that proved the correlation …
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New InSight Spacecraft to Study Interior Structure of Mars
The image above shows an artists’ impression of the deployed InSight spacecraft on the surface of Mars. The craft was launched from the west coast of the USA on May 5. 2018, after a two-year …