Iron meteorites unlock secrets of the early solar system and Earth's origin

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

Rare meteorite proves our solar system almost had an extra planet

A rare meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert proves that our solar system almost had at least one extra planet. In a ...
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Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert

"It’s incredible to think there was once a world this large." The post Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert ...

One of our planets may be missing, and it could explain why the solar system looks the way it does

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...
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Scientists discover a strange “inside-out” planetary system that shouldn’t exist

Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying long-standing theories of planet formation. The finding hints that some ...
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Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet Factory” Deep Out in Space

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed. The post Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet ...
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The Solar System May Have Ejected A Fifth Giant Planet – Which Would Explain How Uranus Held Onto Its Moons

Looking at the Solar System, Jupiter and Uranus both have plenty of irregular moons. In supercomputer simulations, the ...
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A Blip on a Telescope in a Colorado Parking Lot Bolstered a Space Mission That Has Found Thousands of Planets … and Counting

The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to ...