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Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet
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Solid evidence for a 9th planet!
If it exists, the 9th planet has 10 times the mass of Earth – orbits 20 times farther from the … More
Evidence for 9th Planet Unveiled
A new planet ten times the mass of Earth deep in the outer system? That’s the word out of Caltech, … More
Viewing Pluto Over Time
Knowing that the data from New Horizons continues to arrive gives me a warm feeling about the months ahead. Below … More
Planetary Deep Drill Successfully Chews through Field Test
Late last year, a small team from Honeybee Robotics went to a gypsum quarry to test Planetary Deep Drill, a … More
Are Cosmologists Fooling Themselves About The Big Bang, Dark Matter And More? (Synopsis)
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.” -Benjamin Franklin The history of science is rife … More
Lights Out: A Fine Occultation of Aldebaran Spans the Atlantic
They braved the cold, cursed the clouds, wrestled with frozen telescope focusers and more, as dedicated astros worked to catch … More
Milky Way’s second-largest black hole?
Astronomers are calling it a possible first detection of an intermediate-mass black hole, a missing link in black hole evolution. … More
Aurora and the Pacific Northwest
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and ESA astronaut Tim Peake shared a series of aurora photographs taken from the International Space … More
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