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CONSERVATIONISTS CONCERNED ABOUT FREE ENTRY TO CANADA'S NATIONAL PARKS IN 2017
According to Parks Canada, more than 900,000 people ordered a free Discovery Pass in the first two weeks after they became available last month... READ MORE›
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VIKINGS SITE IN NORTH AMERICA SPOTTED FROM SPACE
The potential site could provide information on how long Vikings stayed in North America and provide other information about the group... READ MORE›
VIKING DISCOVERY COULD PUT SOUTHWEST NEWFOUNDLAND ON THE MAP
The potential discovery of a second Viking site in Point Rosee, Newfoundland may spell big news for the tourism industry on the island's southwest coast... READ MORE›
HOW VIKINGS MADE THE NEW WORLD THEIR OWN
We know of one Viking site on the very northern tip of Newfoundland but was this part of a wider Viking territory?... READ MORE›
THE VIKINGS HAVE LANDED IN THE AMERICAS
Along the way it made an unscheduled stop in Scotland's Shetland Islands as well as well as docking in the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland... READ MORE›
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BURIED BELOW PLUTO'S SURFACE A SLUSHY SEA BIGGER THAN ALL THE WATER ON EARTH
New Horizons is on its way to another frozen world in the Kuiper Belt region of the solar system about 1 billion miles 1.6 billion km past Pluto... READ MORE›
NEW DWARF PLANET DISCOVERED FAR BEYOND PLUTO
It joins a growing list of dwarf planets known to populate the solar system Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, Eris and -- most famous of all -- Pluto... READ MORE›
EARTH HAD ASTEROID NEAR-MISS LAST WEEK
Surprised scientists breathe a sigh of relief just as NASA prepares to launch its probe to Bennu, a space rock that regularly comes close to earth... READ MORE›
NASA SPACECRAFT SENDS BACK CLOSE-UP IMAGES OF JUPITER'S POLES
Jupiter's north polar region, taken by the Juno spacecraft 195,000 kilometers away are the first-ever close-up images of the planet's poles... READ MORE›
DISTANT ICE WORLD SHOWS WHY PLUTO DESERVES DWARF PLANET STATUS
Officially, the International Astronomical Union IAU recognizes five dwarf planets -- Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake and Haumea... READ MORE›
TRIPLE SUNRISE, SUNSETS FOR FARAWAY PLANET WITH THREE STARS IN 550-YEAR ORBIT
It also is one of the few extrasolar planets -- those outside our solar system -- to be directly imaged by telescope... READ MORE›
'TAILLESS COMET' FOUND TO BE A PRISTINE ASTEROID, OFFERING CLUES ABOUT ORIGINS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
The discovery of additional Manx comets could help scientists to refine computer models used to simulate the solar system's formation, Meech said... READ MORE›
FRENCH FOLLOW NASA LEAD, NARROW SEARCH FOR PRESUMED 'PLANET NINE'
Many other planets have been predicted through modeling over the years, mostly wrongly... READ MORE›
IS PLANET 9 A PLANET? A SIMPLE FLOW CHART HELPS WITH A TOUGH QUESTION
Still, people gravitated towards the news, and were quick to proclaim a new entry into our planetary solar system... READ MORE›
ASTRONOMERS SEE PLANET STILL GROWING IN ITS STELLAR WOMB
The discovery also demonstrates a technique to find other baby planets by searching for the telltale hydrogen gas emissions... READ MORE›
EARTH-LIKE WORLD COULD BE 'MOST IMPORTANT PLANET FOUND OUTSIDE SOLAR SYSTEM'
A rocky Earth-sized planet that circles a small, nearby star could be the most important world ever found beyond the solar system, astronomers say... READ MORE›
NEW PLANET DISCOVERED BY 15-YEAR-OLD INTERN
A 15-year-old intern in England has discovered a new planet, the same size as Jupiter, while carrying out work experience at a university... READ MORE›