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The ‘blue moon’ won’t be the only rare sight in the night sky this week
CNN via Yahoo News· 10 months agoEditor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on...
"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...
Is Pluto a planet? Some no longer consider it one, but others believe it should be.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Many Americans grew up with this as the definitive planetary lineup and created clever mnemonic devices to memorize them ...
Why doesn’t Jupiter have even more spectacular rings than Saturn?
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJust recently on the blog I posted a series of images of Jupiter taken by JWST, some of which showed...
Why smaller planets are better at building large moons
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSmaller rocky planets are more likely to have a large moon in their sky. | Credit: University of...
Rings Around Uranus, Leather Made of Human Skin, and More Top Science News of the Week
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe week’s top three stories on the science beat all made me a little uncomfortable, to be honest....
NASA streams first-ever high-definition video from deep space
KSWB articles via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe video, featuring Taters the cat, was uploaded before Psyche's launch and sent back from 19...
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
Humans are changing the moon's surface so much it's entered a new geological era, scientists say
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoResearchers hope their proposal of declaring a new geological era on the moon — the Lunar...
1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean...
Space via Yahoo News· 5 months agoSpace.com caught up with two leading scientists now engaged in extracting and analyzing samples of...