Asteroid 99942 Apophis is a primordial relic from the formation of our Solar System.
In our Solar System, we believe the Sun has accreted about two-and-a-half Earth-masses of rocky material.
NASA's study of NEOs provides important clues to understanding the origin of our solar system.
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It joins more than 150 planets discovered outside our solar system in recent years.
So far, telescopes have been able to detect just over 300 planets outside our Solar System.
Now, researchers speculate that it is the first known meteorite from our Solar System's innermost planet, Mercury.
By casting a wide net, the telescope is expected to catch many moving objects within our Solar System.
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First, a new study makes the case for why our solar system is special, why is it unique.
Today I announce a new plan to explore space and extend a human presence across our solar system.
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On the surface, the clues strongly imply that Voyager 1 has passed the limit of our solar system's influence.
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Probes have shown us stunning images of the rings of Saturn and the outer planets of our solar system.
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So, that means that there was not that violence in our solar system.
We think there may have been some violent events in our solar system.
Check out a gallery of other planets located outside our solar system below.
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Planet hunters are finding more and more worlds beyond our solar system.
They proclaimed the observation as the first visual - albeit indirect - proof of a planet outside our Solar System.
This causes charged particles that initially came from the Sun to speed up and head out of our solar system.
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"It is time for America to take the next steps... and extend a human presence across our Solar System, " he said.
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If our solar system's disk wasn't ionized, its material would not have been funneled onto the young sun's surface, researchers said.
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To date, of the roughly 800 planets catalogued beyond our Solar System, only four are known to orbit stars in a cluster.
On Monday, January 21st, the Moon will appear amazingly close in the sky to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.
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That is how the planets of our solar system most likely formed.
An analysis of the solar wind is expected to provide clues about the composition of the sun and origins of our solar system.
It's about exploring and learning and going to various places in our solar system, and I guess you can't place a value on that.
But the new find is a planet just a third the size of that recent record-holder, smaller even than our Solar System's smallest planet, Mercury.
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While putting money into renewed human space flight efforts, the proposal cuts scientific research, particularly the study of the other planets in our solar system.
Kepler meanwhile will just keep counting planets beyond our Solar System.
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Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years, and the earliest signs of life on Earth date from about 3.8 billion years ago.
Beyond our solar system, researchers are rapidly discovering previously unknown planets.
Like phone books, we used to have immutable facts all compiled in Encyclopedia Britannica: 9 planets in our solar system, the Soviet Union, and avoid alcohol.
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