solar system

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For decades, astronomers have tried to understand why so many icy bodies in the outer solar system resemble snowmen, with two rounded sections joined together.

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The conspiracy theorists among us think he could announce the presence of aliens from outside our solar system, especially after former president Barack Obama’s recent off-hand comments raised eyebrows.

From Salon

Our own solar system, including Earth and the other rocky planets, formed from such recycled material about 4.5 billion years ago.

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New research led by scientists at Penn State suggests that at least some of Bennu's amino acids may have originated in extremely cold, radioactive conditions during the earliest stages of the solar system.

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Planets beyond our solar system are known as "exoplanets."

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