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The Music of the Spheres is real, except that it's electromagnetic rather than auditory. The outer planets, especially those of the Kuiper Belt bodies, modify the native electromagnetic field of the Solar System and the electromagnetic fields of the stars and galaxies in much the same way that someone playing a guitar changes the pitch and tone of ( Read more... )

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16nov_europa/

In a potentially significant finding in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo probe have discovered what appears to be a body of ( Read more... )

http://news.discovery.com/space/our-solar-system-might-be-littered-with-alien-artifacts-111109.html

As powerful space telescopes seek out Earth-like planets, and SETI radio telescopes listen for transmissions from ( Read more... )

Why Pluto is No Longer a Planet

Yeah, right, and human beings are no longer great apes -- we've been busted back to Purgatorius. And the great clade of reptiles, including mammals, archosaurs (e.g., birds, dinosaurs, crocodilians), and Order Squamata, has been "demoted" to PetrolacosaurusOn a very cold day in hell ( Read more... )

The Kuiper Belt & Outer Solar System | Pluto, Eris & Dwarf Planets | Space.com

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http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/15jul_dawn2/

On July 15, NASA's ion-propelled Dawn probe will become the first spacecraft to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. Dawn will orbit Vesta for one Earth-year, studying the ( Read more... )

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/11jul_darkfireworks/

On June 7, 2011, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a flash of X-rays coming from the western edge of the solar disk. Registering only "M" (for medium) on the ( Read more... )

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09jun_bigsurprise/

NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from ( Read more... )