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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
'Hand of God': The 'Hand of God' is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has image…
From the mysterious 'smiling face' to the grand 'Pillars of creation', check out these 7 amazing photos of our universe ...
Neptune's Clouds Are Vanishing - Hubble Space Telescope Reveals
Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...
Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
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Asteroid grains shed light on the outer solar system's origins
Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...
Evidence for solar system's mystery Planet X is growing
In January 2016, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown announced research that provided evidence for a planet about 1.5 times the size of Earth in ...
Scientists present strongest evidence yet for ninth solar system planet
In 2016, scientists Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin suggested that an unseen Planet Nine could explain the unusual ...
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Astronomy breakthrough as hidden ninth planet discovered in new research
A ninth planet may exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt, a region populated by icy bodies that orbit the Sun.
Wackiest ways we’ll travel to space from terrifying 22,000-mile-long elevator to balloon with ‘loo with a view’
FROM the 2050s, it is largely hoped that humans will travel to space, in a similar way to how they travel abroad. It won’t be ...
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The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)
One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...