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What is Planet Nine, and where is it? Mystery of large hidden planet beyond Neptune explainedWhat is Planet Nine, and where is it? The question has fascinated astronomers for years. Scientists believe a massive undiscovered planet m...
Why This Strange Underwater “Lost City” Has Scientists Talking About Alien LifeScientists have found a vibrant 'Lost City' deep in the Atlantic Ocean, thriving without sunlight. This discovery suggests life can exist i...
Planet nine stays hidden, but the solar system has a new mystery guestA newly identified dwarf planet, named 2017 OF201, has been discovered in the distant outer reaches of the solar system. Measuring about 70...
Astronomers have detected what may be a ‘future Earth’ eight billion years from nowAstronomers discovered KMT-2020-BLG-0414, a faraway planet orbiting a white dwarf, which offers a glimpse into Earth's potential future in ...
99-feet-long asteroid to come close to Earth. Know date and time. Will it collide and create devastation?An asteroid is a rocky, metallic, or icy body with no atmosphere, it is present in our solar system. It is neither a true planet nor an ide...
Can you identify this celestial body in the picture NASA shared?NASA has released pictures of a celestial body painted in a rainbow of psychedelic colours.
NASA space probe 'phones home' in landmark mission to solar system's edgeLaunched in January 2006, New Horizons embarked on its 4 billion-mile journey toward the solar system's edge to study the dwarf planet Plut...
- Ceres may have 'hidden' ice volcanoes
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) The dwarf planet Ceres may actually host many "hidden" ice volcanoes, besides the only one discovered recently, a ...
NASA spacecraft to explore ancient object beyond PlutoThe object is in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region that surrounds the solar system and is filled with trillions of icy rocks that have yet ...
Moon saving Pluto's atmosphere from decayPluto's relationship with its moon Charon is one of the more unusual interactions in the solar system due to Charon's size and proximity.
- Earth-like snow and ice features found on Pluto
Washington, Jan 5 (IANS) Using a model similar to what meteorologists use to forecast weather and a computer simulation of the physics of e...
2016: A year that unlocked mysteries of our solar system!A newly discovered "great valley" in the southern hemisphere of Mercury provided more evidence that the small planet closest to the Sun is ...
NASA releases coloured images of PlutoThe pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto on July 14 this year with resolutions of 77-85 metre...
Pluto has 11,000 feet high, young ice mountains: NASANew close-up images of a region near Pluto's equator show a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feetabove the surface of t...
US President Barack Obama Obama, Stephen Hawking congratulate NASA on Pluto Flyby"Pluto just had its first visitor! Thanks @NASA - it's a great day for discovery and American leadership," tweeted Obama.
Here's how big Pluto is compared to the largest objects in the solar systemToday, it's still one of the farthest objects in our solar neighborhood, but it now goes by another title: dwarf planet.
Here's everything you need to know about the Pluto mission in a minuteTomorrow morning, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will complete its nine-year, 4.6-billion-mile journey to the icy dwarf planet.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft spots pyramid-shaped peak on CeresNASA has captured more images of mysterious bright spots on Ceres, and also spotted a baffling pyramid-shaped peak towering over a flat lan...
NASA spacecraft beams new images of PlutoClosing in on Pluto at about 49,890 kph, New Horizons already has covered more than 3 billion miles since it launched on January 19, 2006.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft begins approach to dwarf planet CeresNASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never befor...