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Gordon tells Universe Today, "We were motivated at the start by a couple of ideas, but my biggest source of inspiration was the idea that circumbinary planets ... moons within our solar system ...

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A mini-moon that has been orbiting Earth for the past two months will peel away from our planet's orbit today (Nov. 25) as it prepares for a decades-long jaunt through the solar system.

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NASA/Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC), CC BY Our solar system is a particularly crowded place. Millions of objects move within it, whether they are planets, moons, comets, or asteroids. And every year, we ...

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Miranda is one of the moons orbiting the planet Uranus in the Solar System. (Getty Images/Corey Ford/Stocktrek Images) He added that it is premature to assume the presence of oceans means there is ...

Credit: buradaki/Getty Images A mini-moon that has ... will peel away from our planet's orbit today (Nov. 25) as it prepares for a decades-long jaunt through the solar system.