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fromArs Technica
1 week ago

Formation of oceans within icy moons could cause the waters to boil

Periodic orbital interactions can cause subsurface oceans in small icy moons to cyclically form and boil as interiors melt and shrink beneath the ice.
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fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System

A new inner-kernel cluster of Kuiper belt objects exists at about 43 AU with unusually planar, ancient, and undisturbed orbits.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Why Do Some Comets Dazzle While Others Fizzle?

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN) have different orbital inclinations, periods, histories, and brightness despite a superficial resemblance.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Astronomers Just Found Dozens of New Asteroid Families'

Asteroid collisions in the main belt produce families of fragments that initially share orbits, enabling lineage tracing despite gradual orbital divergence.
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fromMail Online
4 months ago

Earth has over 6 moons you never knew about, scientists reveal

Earth has at least six 'minimoons' in orbit, with some formed from debris resulting from asteroid impacts on the moon.
fromState of the Planet
4 months ago

A Chaotic Mars-Earth Planetary Cycle May Have Contributed to One of Earth's Major Warming Events

Researchers discovered evidence of a 1.6-million-year cycle affecting Earth and Mars climate patterns from Jurassic lake sediments in the Sangonghe Formation, China.
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