Extra Solar Planets

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Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material that shouldn't be there.

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New Horizons is closer to Pluto than it is to Earth.

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Astronomers have found the debris in a ring of icy rocks beyond Neptune.

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The film "Avatar" is set on the inhabited moon Pandora. Astronomers are hot on the trail of such habitable extrasolar moons.

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Here are the 9 Best Space Science Stories of 2009.

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The leftovers from stellar explosions are like fingerprints that could provide information about how the stars exploded.

In the last decade humanity has discovered hundreds of planets around other stars. This is a collection of blog items, about the new worlds.