Diamonds are made of carbon, after all--the fourth most common element in the solar system.
The suburbs of the solar system are filled with small, icy objects, including Pluto.
So there are eight planets in the solar system, not nine and not 10.
Once their missions were accomplished, they carried on into the outer reaches of the solar system.
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.
And, more romantically, robotic probes travel throughout the solar system, orbiting and landing on other planets.
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.
"I'm interested in where all the bits that made up the Solar System came from, " she said.
Until recently, the asteroids were largely a footnote in NASA's plans for exploration of the solar system.
Nanosats could also act as relays for spacecraft sent to the outer reaches of the solar system.
Planetary Resources plans to take rocks floating aimlessly in the solar system and turn them into valuable commodities.
But these are the first images of planets outside the Solar System, or exoplanets as they are called.
It will also help build a coalition of countries that want to travel farther into the solar system.
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If you have a little model of the solar system at home, you can break off the outermost planet.
Right now there's a flux of stuff from other stars from our galaxy that's flying into the solar system.
The solar system the team discovered is about 10, 000 light years from Earth.
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That's when there was the news about 12 planets in the solar system and possibly more, you know, coming.
Either that or, if the tweaking is in the wrong direction, it gets ejected from the solar system altogether.
These under-ice environments may also provide fascinating insights into the potential habitability of some moons in the Solar System.
" As we colonize the solar system, predicts George Yeo, Singapore's trade minister, "Planet Earth will become the Old World.
Because they finance the upfront cost of the solar system, they have an constant need for capital to reach scale.
Their chemistry and composition offer direct evidence of the forces that shaped the creation of the solar system, experts said.
That will tell astronomers a lot, they hope, about what the original early days of the solar system were like.
That prospect proved too much for IAU members who took the historic decision last month to redefine the Solar System.
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It may be that the objects of the solar system are too varied to be put into neat human categories.
Every newly observed body in the solar system seems to have one mysterious feature that provokes the curiosity of scientists.
But comets were really only unpredictable to ancient peoples, who lacked a knowledge of the full extent of the solar system.
Eventually, assuming the probes continued to function, they would pass and study Uranus and Neptune, and then depart the solar system.
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