Solar System News
April 27, 2024
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Apr. 22, 2024 Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing volcanoes, and puffy clouds of sulfuric acid, uninhabitable Venus offers vital lessons about the potential for life on other planets, a new paper ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf, an unexpected finding for such a cold and isolated world. The findings suggest that this brown dwarf might generate aurorae similar to those seen on our own planet as well as on Jupiter ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Scientists have developed a new method using knot theory to find the optimal routes for future space missions without the need to waste ...
Apr. 15, 2024 The mystery of how Pluto got a giant heart-shaped feature on its surface has finally been solved by an international team of astrophysicists. The team is the first to successfully reproduce the unusual shape with numerical simulations, attributing ...
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Apr. 12, 2024 An international research team has for the first time directly detected stellar winds from three Sun-like stars by recording the X-ray emission from their astrospheres, and placed constraints on the ...
Apr. 5, 2024 The CHEOPS space telescope is providing new information on the mysterious exoplanet WASP-76b. This ultra-hot giant is characterized by an asymmetry between the amount of light observed on its eastern ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Researchers found that the double-lobed object, which is officially named Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth and resembles a snowman, may have ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Scientists captured images showing the development of turbulence as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) interacted with the ambient solar wind in the circumsolar ...
Mar. 22, 2024 How much time do planets have to form from a swirling disk of gas and dust around a star? A new study gives scientists a better idea of how our own solar system came to ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Could life be found in frozen sea spray from moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter? New research finds that life can be detected in a single ice grain ...
Mar. 14, 2024 The period that liquid water was present on the surface of Mars may have been shorter than previously thought. Channel landforms called gullies, previously thought to be formed exclusively by liquid ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Sand ripples are symmetrical. Yet wind -- which causes them -- is very much not. Furthermore, sand ripples can be found on Mars and on Earth. They ...
Mar. 5, 2024 NASA's Juno spacecraft has directly measured charged oxygen and hydrogen molecules from the atmosphere of one of Jupiter's largest moons, Europa. These observations provide key constraints on the ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Geologists determined the original orientation of many of the Mars bedrock samples collected by the Perseverance rover. The findings can give scientists clues to the conditions in which the rocks ...
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Feb. 29, 2024 Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Organic materials discovered on Mars may have originated from atmospheric formaldehyde, according to new research, marking a step forward in our understanding of the possibility of past life on the ...
Feb. 22, 2024 Scientists suspect Mars once had long-lived rivers, lakes and streams. Today, water on Mars is found in ice at the poles and trapped below the Martian surface. Researchers now reveal that Mars also ...
Feb. 22, 2024 A new computer model mimics Moon dust so well that it could lead to smoother and safer Lunar robot ...
Feb. 21, 2024 Mars was once a wet world. The geological record of the Red Planet shows evidence for water flowing on the surface -- from river deltas to valleys carved by massive flash floods. But a new study ...
Feb. 16, 2024 A new paradigm is taking shape in the space industry as the countries and entities accessing space continue to grow and diversify. This dynamic landscape creates both competition and potential for ...
Feb. 15, 2024 A team found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located in the Kuiper Belt. Methane detected on their surfaces has the tell-tale signs ...
Feb. 15, 2024 A geologist has revealed intriguing insights into the volcanic activity on Mars. He proposes that Mars has significantly more diverse volcanism than previously realized, driven by an early form of ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ago, making Mimas ...
Feb. 6, 2024 China's Chang'e-5, the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, delivered 1.73 kilograms of regolith from the Oceanus Procellarum, a plane named for ...
Feb. 2, 2024 Astronomers have shown new atmospheric detail in a set of 15 exoplanets similar to Neptune. While none could support humanity, a better understanding of their behavior might help us to understand why ...
Jan. 29, 2024 Meteorites are fragments of asteroids which find their way to Earth as shooting stars and provide information on the origins of our solar system. A team of researchers has examined the so-called ...
Jan. 26, 2024 TOI-1136, a dwarf star located more than 270 light years from Earth, is host to six confirmed exoplanets and a seventh as yet unconfirmed candidate. The system has provided a rich source of ...
Jan. 24, 2024 New research shows that atmospheric pressure fluctuations that pull gases up from underground could be responsible for releasing subsurface methane into Mars' atmosphere; knowing when and where ...
Jan. 16, 2024 New research shows the early lunar crust which makes up the surface of the Moon was considerably enriched in water more than 4 billion years ago, counter to previously held ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Astronomers have made the rare discovery of a small, cold exoplanet and its massive outer companion -- shedding light on the formation of planets like ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Researchers have taken the first steps toward finding liquid solvents that may someday help extract critical building materials from lunar and Martian-rock dust, an important piece in making ...
Jan. 9, 2024 Astronomers have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infrared emission from methane, likely due to energy in its upper atmosphere. This is an ...
Jan. 9, 2024 Analysis of iron meteorites from the earliest years of the solar system indicate that the planetary 'seeds' that ultimately formed Earth contained ...
Jan. 8, 2024 Astronomers have detected a three-ringed structure in the nursery of planets in the inner planet-forming disk of a young star. This configuration suggests two Jupiter-mass planets are forming in the ...
Thursday, February 29, 2024
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Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Three Years Later, Search for Life on Mars Continues
- New Realistic Computer Model Will Help Robots Collect Moon Dust
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- Evidence of Geothermal Activity Within Icy Dwarf Planets
- Diverse Ancient Volcanoes on Mars Discovered by Planetary Scientist May Hold Clues to Pre-Plate Tectonic Activity on Earth
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Astronomers Make Rare Exoplanet Discovery, and a Giant Leap in Detecting Earth-Like Bodies
- Potential Solvents Identified for Building on Moon and Mars
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
- NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
- Meteorite Analysis Shows Earth's Building Blocks Contained Water
Monday, January 8, 2024
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Thursday, December 21, 2023
- NASA's Hubble Watches 'spoke Season' On Saturn
- One Small Material, One Giant Leap for Life on Mars: New Research Takes Us a Step Closer to Sustaining Human Life on the Red Planet
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
- 'Bouncing' Comets Could Deliver Building Blocks for Life to Exoplanets
- Using Eclipses to Calculate the Transparency of Saturn's Rings
Monday, November 13, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
- Glow in the Visible Range Detected for the First Time in the Martian Night
- Exploring the Origin of Nucleosynthetic Isotope Variations in Ryugu Samples
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Monday, November 6, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Thursday, October 26, 2023
- Uranus Aurora Discovery Offers Clues to Habitable Icy Worlds
- Venus Had Earth-Like Plate Tectonics Billions of Years Ago, Study Suggests
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
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Monday, October 23, 2023
- Researchers Capture First Images of a Radio 'ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse
- Researchers Probe How a Piece of the Moon Became a Near-Earth Asteroid
- The Moon Is 40 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- Removal of Magnetic Spacecraft Contamination Within Extraterrestrial Samples Easily Carried Out, Researchers Say
- 'Starquakes' Could Explain Mystery Signals
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
- Scientists Detect and Validate the Longest-Period Exoplanet Found With TESS
- New Giant Planet Evidence of Possible Planetary Collisions
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
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Monday, July 17, 2023
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
- Webb Celebrates First Year of Science With Close-Up on Birth of Sun-Like Stars
- New Study Reveals Evidence of Diverse Organic Material on Mars
Monday, July 10, 2023
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
- Earth Was Created Much Faster Than We Thought: This Makes the Chance of Finding Other Habitable Planets in the Universe More Likely
- A Scorching-Hot Exoplanet Scrutinized by Astronomers
- Key Building Block for Life Found at Saturn's Moon Enceladus