There’s a controversy in planetary science — some researchers propose that the Solar System has a ninth planet with a distant orbit around the Sun. In search of a ninth planet has been on astronomers minds for some time. They suggest that there is a planet nine since some strange orbits have been found in our solar system. Researchers believe […]
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Stars are not born alone. Rather, they emerge from clouds of gas and dust in groups of up to 10,000, then slowly scatter through space. For the first time, astronomers have identified a star that came from the same solar nursery as our sun, some 4.5 billion years ago. This stellar relative—located 110 light-years away in the constellation Hercules—is hotter […]
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On July 31st, 2018 Mars will be the closest to the Earth than it’s been since 2003. It won’t pass this close to Earth again until September 15th, 2035. So mark the date, and be sure to check it out. In the days leading up to the event known as a Mars Close Approach, Mars will seem brighter in the […]
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Forty-eight years after British physicist Peter Higgs predicted its existence, the Higgs boson was finally spotted by scientists at the CERN lab in Geneva.The “God particle” explains the existence of mass and backs up the Standard Model, the foundational theory of modern physics. “For physicists, this is the equivalent of Columbus discovering America,” says physicist Themis Bowcock. The Higgs is […]
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