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Can The World’s Largest Undersea Observatory Find A Kracken In The Next 25 Years?

The worst part about exploring the sea floor is that there’s water everywhere. It’s dark, cold and not terribly compatible with breathing. But with Neptune Canada sprawled along 805km of the sea floor like an ancient serpent, nothing down there will escape our study.


July 8, 2011
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Neptune Is About To Turn One Year Old. What?

About 165 years ago, astronomers figured out that Neptune is a planet. Since then, Pluto has lived and died as a planet, but Neptune is just now finishing its first solar cycle: It’ll turn one in Neptune years on July 12.


June 18, 2010
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Super-Clean Space Rock Puzzles Astronomers

More used to seeing rocks covered in grime after billions of years of floating around space, a team of astronomers at MIT are scratching their heads over a surprisingly pristine rock in Kuiper Belt, near Neptune.


June 2, 2010
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We Could Get To Neptune And Back For A Mere $US4 Trillion

Manned spaceflight is an expensive and impractical proposition. But what if we had all the funds we wanted at our disposal? What could we do? Quite a bit, it turns out.