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Various groupings of Jovian moons with the newly discovered ones shown in bold. (Roberto Molar-Candanosa, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science)

Astronomers Discover A Dozen New Jovian Moons

July 21, 2018

As a team of astronomers was looking beyond Pluto for the mysterious Planet 9. So far they haven’t located the giant hypothetical planet, but they did wind up discovering a dozen new moons orbiting Jupiter. “Jupiter just happened to be in the sky near the search fields where we were looking for extremely distant Solar System […]

About Half of the Water You Drink is Older than the Sun

September 26, 2014

New research reveals that as much as one half of all of Earth’s current water supply is older than the Sun. An international team of scientists led by Ilse Cleeves at the University of Michigan looked back into creation of Earth and our solar system to find out where all of the water came from. […]

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