solar system

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Cities on the moon, Mars and elsewhere as we tame and inhabit our solar system.

From Salon

"It's absent in all of our previous Hubble images, which means that we just witnessed a violent collision between two massive objects and a huge debris cloud unlike anything in our own solar system today."

From Science Daily

"This is the closest we have been to realizing the science fiction vision of expanding across the solar system."

From Science Daily

These rocky bodies may contain valuable metals, ancient material left over from the formation of the solar system, and chemical clues that reveal the history of their original parent bodies.

From Science Daily

This planet has nearly 18 times the mass of Jupiter and travels around its star at a distance similar to that of Neptune in our own solar system.

From Science Daily