Move over Jupiter; Saturn is the new moon king. A team has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons to 82, surpassing …read more Source:: Science
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Exomoons may be home to extra-terrestrial life
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•New research looks at the possibility of moons outside our solar system causing gaps in the rings of planet J1407b. …read more Source:: Science
A dozen new moons of Jupiter discovered, including one ‘oddball’
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•Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found — 11 ‘normal’ outer moons, and one that they’re calling an ‘oddball.’ Astronomers first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 …read more Source:: Science
The true power of the solar wind
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•The planets and moons of our solar system are continuously being bombarded by particles from the sun. On the Moon or on Mercury, the uppermost layer of rock is gradually …read more Source:: Science
Intense storms batter Saturn’s largest moon, scientists report
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•Titan, the largest of Saturn’s more than 60 moons, has surprisingly intense rainstorms, according to research by a team of UCLA planetary scientists and geologists. Although the storms are relatively …read more Source:: Science
Uranus may have two undiscovered moons
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•NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus 30 years ago, but researchers are still making discoveries from the data it gathered then. A new study led by University of Idaho …read more Source:: Science
Study shows Pluto’s moons in chaos
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Pluto’s outer moons are continuously toppled and turned as they battle the joint gravitational forces of their parent planet and its primary moon Charon, a …read more Source:: UKScienceNews