Explore the solar system from your desk with Google’s space maps
Google Maps in Space lets you "walk" the surface of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other entities in the Solar System, as well as ...
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This day in space history, Pluto demoted
Pluto's has moons, but they are unlike others in the solar system. The largest, Charon, is about half Pluto's size and doesn't orbit Pluto as much as the two orbit each other. Pluto, Ceres ...
Could comets have delivered the building blocks of life to ocean worlds like Europa, Enceladus and Titan?
Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large ...
Asteroid Bigger than the Dino-Killer Knocked the Solar System’s Largest Moon Sideways
T he asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was ...
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Asteroid Bigger than Dino-Killer Knocked Jupiter Moon Sideways
That impact may have had a role in creating Pluto’s litter of five moons—Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx. Ganymede will be studied more closely still in 2034, when the European Space ...
Asteroid Bigger than Dino-Killer Knocked Jupiter Moon Sideways
The asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was ...
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4 Billion Years Ago a Giant Impact Reshaped Jupiter's Largest Moon
Like Pluto with its moon Charon, Ganymede is tidally locked with its host, forced by gravity to forever present one face to the cloud tops below by virtue of the intense gravitational pull between its ...