Illustration of planet formation around a Sun-like star, with the building blocks of the planets – rocks and iron molecules – in the foreground. Credit:…
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An MIT-led team has discovered evidence of a giant impact in the nearby HD 17255 star system, in which an Earth-sized terrestrial planet and a…
Images taken by Hope’s onboard spectrometer (left-hand panel) and an artist’s impression (right) show discrete auroras on Mars’ night side. Credit: Courtesy of Emirates Mars…
Is there weather on MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron oxide is prevalent…
Image of Neptune taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Probing the structures and properties of superionic ice. A layer of “hot,” electrically conductive…
An MIT study suggests that a mysterious gap existed within the solar system’s protoplanetary disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the composition…
This image, which shows the night side of Venus glowing in thermal infrared, was captured by Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft. Credit: JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Damia Bouic Astrophysicists led by…
Using the world’s most powerful radio antenna, scientists have discovered stars unexpectedly blasting out radio waves, possibly indicating the existence of hidden planets. The University…
The fiery exoplanet WASP-76b – a so-called hot Jupiter, where it rains iron – may be hotter than previously thought. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Considered an…
Artist impression of BepiColombo flying by Mercury on October 1, 2021. The spacecraft makes nine gravity assist maneuvers (one of Earth, two of Venus, and…
GW Orionis artistic animation. Credit: ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al./L. Calçada Potential discovery of a circumtriple planet has implications for bolstering our understanding of planet formation. In…
LLNL scientists have developed a new approach using machine learning to study with unprecedented resolution the phase behaviors of superionic water found in ice giants…
Experiments in a chamber under Martian-like conditions in a University of Oregon lab suggest that small sparks may be triggered by friction under normal atmospheric…
This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. Credit: NASA An international team of researchers has used seasonal variations to identify likely sub-surface…
This composite image of ALMA data from the young star HD 163296 shows hydrogen cyanide emission laid over an artist’s impression of a starfield. The…
An artist’s impression of the gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star. The inset shows the molecular gas targeted by the…
This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, shows wide (left) and close-up (right) views of the…
Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed “Rochette,” from which NASA’s Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples. The rover drilled the hole on…
Jupiter is shown in visible light for context underneath an artistic impression of the Jovian upper atmosphere’s infrared glow. The brightness of this upper atmosphere…
Perseverance’s First Cored Mars Rock in Sample Tube: Perseverance’s first cored-rock sample is visible inside this titanium sample collection tube in this image taken on…