Diamonds are made of carbon, after all--the fourth most common element in the solar system.
So there are eight planets in the solar system, not nine and not 10.
It also found that Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has a magnetic field.
Where the Earth has soil, other rocky bodies in the solar system have regolith.
Mars, our next-door neighbor in the solar system, hasn't given up many of its secrets yet.
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All this while revenue growth is hard to come by anywhere in the solar system.
Planetary Resources plans to take rocks floating aimlessly in the solar system and turn them into valuable commodities.
That's when there was the news about 12 planets in the solar system and possibly more, you know, coming.
These under-ice environments may also provide fascinating insights into the potential habitability of some moons in the Solar System.
Every newly observed body in the solar system seems to have one mysterious feature that provokes the curiosity of scientists.
Mr Shoemaker continued working with space probes, exploring through robot eyes the remotest bodies in the solar system and, naturally, their craters.
The French nuclear giant Areva bought a company that taps the biggest nuclear energy source in the solar system: the sun.
The first is of all the objects in the solar system, Mars is the most likely object for life, other than the Earth.
But beginning next week, "The Bachelorette" will for the first time feature a single mother as the sun in the solar system of suitors.
Certainly, what the Cassini data has done is thrust Enceladus up the interest index of objects in the Solar System that demand further investigation.
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Without a new nomenclature, these discoveries raised the prospect that textbooks could soon be talking about 50 or more planets in the Solar System.
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In turn, that should help resolve questions about how the Moon, the Earth, and other planets in the solar system evolved in the first place.
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Nothing like it has been seen elsewhere in the Solar System.
ExoMars is a challenging, difficult but tremendously important project if we ever want to have a robotic exploration programme in our neighbourhood in the Solar System.
Building on this discovery, Galileo found that Io is by far the most volcanically active body in the solar system about 100 times more active than Earth.
"You can get to it every 26 months, and it's the place in the solar system most likely to have had life emerge, " Hubbard told Space.com.
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This summer, two of them merged to form a single oval, larger than the earth, making the second-biggest storm in the solar system after the Great Red Spot.
This periodic reappearance of fresh frost takes place every Pluto-year (248 Earth-years) and is the reason that Pluto is one of the most reflective surfaces in the Solar System.
With its superior lift capability, the SLS will expand our reach in the solar system and allow us to explore cis-lunar space, near-Earth asteroids, Mars and its moons and beyond.
And with the advent of 3D broadcasting, imagine if students could inspect a visualization of the planets orbiting the sun in the solar system, projected right out into their classroom.
The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, has these cloud of Trojan asteroids that straddle its orbit, so that would seem to violate a plain reading of the definition.
Weather of a slightly more familiar kind is thought to exist on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn and the only moon in the solar system to have a thick atmosphere.
Asteroid Braille, believed to be about one to five kilometers (.6 to 3 miles) across, will be the smallest body in the solar system ever studied up close by a spacecraft.
Designed to be flexible for launching spacecraft for crew and cargo missions, SLS and Orion will expand human presence beyond low-Earth orbit and enable new missions of exploration in the solar system.
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