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Our solar system's planets aren't weird after all. Exoplanets have tilted orbits, too
Space via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAll solar system planets circle our sun with slightly tilted orbits — and a new study shows even...
What's the smallest known asteroid? What about the largest?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoField of asteroids with space background and glowing orange shiny star. Asteroids constantly zoom...
"There’s room for a richer definition": Astronomers debate rethinking what makes a planet habitable
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAn artist's impression of exoplanet WASP-69b orbiting its host star Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck...
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
Why alien life could be thriving on the "terminator line" of exoplanets
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNASA Red Dwarf Planet concept NASA/D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics In distant...
What is the smallest known planet?
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPluto and Charon appear in a composite of natural-color images obtained by New Horizons space probe on July 13 and 14, 2015. Image released July 24,...
How exoplanet hunters find alien worlds hundreds of light-years away and figure out if they have...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIllustration of the Kepler-138 star system, which is located 218 light-years away.NASA, ESA, and...
All Hail Saturn, the New Moon King
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAll Hail Saturn, the New Moon KingNASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Saturn just recently became the planet with the most moons in our Solar System. At...
Zoozve, the 'quasi-moon' of Venus, turns space art error into cosmic reality
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 4 months agoSometimes, artistic impressions of our solar system contain whimsical or difficult-to-explain...
Exoplanets may provide habitable conditions for billions of years, study says
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoRocky exoplanets – planets outside our Solar System – with atmospheres dominated by hydrogen and...
