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The newly discovered object called Niku is a real oddity (artist’s conception). It is also part of a group of many such objects far past Neptune in the outer Solar System. Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/Nick Risinger For the most part, the Solar System seems to be a rather well-ordered place; the planets, dwarf […] 
Artist’s conception of the possible Planet Nine, orbiting much farther from the Sun than even Pluto. The Cassini spacecraft may be able to help find it. Image Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) The Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn for many years now, studying the massive planet and its moons in unprecedented detail. Now, […] 
The Kuiper Belt is a massive collection of dwarf planet- and asteroid-sized worlds orbiting far past Neptune. Is the hypothetical Planet 9 really a second such belt? Image Credit: T. Pyle (SSC)/JPL-Caltech/NASA The announcement of a possible large ninth planet in our Solar System way beyond Neptune last month caused a lot of […] 
Artist’s conception of Planet Nine. The new evidence is the best so far that a massive planet exists far past Neptune in the outer Solar System. Image Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) For a long time now, there have been theories and rumors regarding the possible existence of another planet in our Solar System, […] 
An artist’s concept of a trans-Neptunian object beyond the Kuiper Belt. Astronomers have discovered a new such object half the size of Pluto, named V774104, which at a distance of 103 Astronomical Units away is the most distant Solar System object found to date. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Far from being an empty expanse […] 
An image mosaic of Europa taken from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, showing the moon’s famous “chaos terrain” of linear cracks and ridges that crisscross almost its entire surface. A new research by a team of U.S. astronomers has identified a previously unseen set of minerals along Europa’s chaos terrain, which are thought to have […] A breathtaking montage of Pluto and Charon, assembled from separate images that were taken on July 13 and 14 from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, as the latter was making its historic close fly by of the distant dwarf planet and its system of moons. New Horizons’ highly successful mission has provided a new […] |
 Next Launch Starlink 1 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL Scheduled for: TBD NET 23 May 2019 Click here for more details... 
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