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A Mysterious Object Visited Our Solar System And Altered The Orbits Of Four Planets
Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...
Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet
NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...
Volcanoes on a moon of Jupiter erupted larger than Lake Superior
The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...
How space missions make discoveries on the way to their main destinations
To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...
Jupiter's 'tormented moon' Io just unleashed the most powerful volcanic event ever seen
NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...
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Strange multi-planet system proves not all hot Jupiter exoplanets are lonely giants
The hot Jupiter WASP-132, with a mass just under half that of Jupiter, orbits its star in just over seven Earth days. The super-Earth, with around six times the mass of the Earth, orbits the star ...
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NASA's Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter's moon Io
"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really ...
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Interstellar Visitor May Have Scrambled Our Solar System
An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our solar system some 4 billion years ago and warped the orbits of many planets. More NASA, ESA, Caltech / ISTOCK ...
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
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Chances of asteroid striking Earth in the next decade has nearly doubled, NASA says
The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...
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Not all Hot Jupiters orbit solo
It contains a Hot Jupiter that orbits its star in 7 days and 3 hours; a Super-Earth (a rocky planet 6 times the mass of the Earth) that orbits the star in just 24 hours and 17 minutes; and a giant ...
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Not all Hot Jupiters orbit solo, observations suggest
The WASP-132 system is a unique multi-planetary system. It contains a Hot Jupiter that orbits its star in seven days and three hours; a Super-Earth (a rocky planet six times the mass of the Earth ...