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Scientists Captivated By Pluto’s Emerging Geological Wonders
Bit by the Pluto bug? Day by day, new images appear showing an ever clearer view of a world we inexplicably love. Call…
NASA’S New Horizon’s Hangout: Countdown to Pluto!
Check out our own Fraser Cain and the scientists from the New Horizon team as they discuss the imminent arrival…
UK Amateur Recreates the Great Red Spot’s Glory Days
Maybe it's too soon for a pity party, but the profound changes in the size and prominence of Jupiter's Great…
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Mars Loses an Ocean But Gains the Potential for Life
It's hard to believe it now looking at Mars' dusty, dessicated landscape that it once possessed a vast ocean. A…
A Recipe for Returning Pluto to Full Planethood
A storm is brewing, a battle of words and a war of the worlds. The Earth is not at risk. It is…
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25 Years Since Voyager’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Images
A quarter of a century has passed since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped the iconic image of Earth known as…
Let’s Help Write a New Mnemonic for the Solar System. My Very Excellent Mother…
The current most-used Solar System mnemonic for remembering the planets and their order from the Sun is “My Very Educated…
Beagle 2: Found on Mars After An 11 Year Hunt
The final chapter in the saga of a wayward Mars lander was finally revealed today, as an international team released…
Astronomers are Predicting at Least Two More Large Planets in the Solar System
Could there be another Pluto-like object out in the far reaches of the Solar System? How about two or more?…
It Looks Like These Are All the Bright Kuiper Belt Objects We’ll Ever Find
The self-professed “Pluto Killer” is at it again. Dr. Michael Brown is now reminiscing about the good old days when…