Meteorites, remnants of asteroids, are crucial for understanding our solar system’s history, acting as time capsules that preserve primordial material. Researchers have made a groundbreaking…
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NASA’s New Horizons mission will continue, emphasizing heliophysics data collection beginning in 2025. Potential future flybys of the Kuiper Belt are also under consideration. Institutions…
An artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer rim of our solar system at a staggering distance of 4 billion…
A veteran astronomer has discovered that Saturn’s vast ring system is heating the planet’s upper atmosphere, a phenomenon never before observed in our solar system.…
The Far-Flung Origin of Life’s Building Blocks: Researchers Uncover “Completely Unexpected” Findings
Many of Earth’s volatiles came from beyond Jupiter. Credit: Imperial College London/NASA Imperial College London researchers have discovered the probable distant origin of Earth’s volatile…
V883 Ori is a remarkable protostar that boasts a temperature that is just hot enough for converting water in its circumstellar disk into gas. This…
This artist’s impression shows the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. In the outermost part of the disc water is frozen out as ice…
This solar system montage of the nine planets and four large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a false-color view of…
The rocket carrying the experiment module being launched to carry out microgravity experiments. Credit: Swedish Space Corporation Gaining insight into the formation of dust grains…
The formation of the solar system remains one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy and planetary science. Scientists believe that the solar system formed around…
Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of stony meteorite that is rich in organic compounds, including amino acids. These amino acids, which are the building blocks…
Artist impress of Quaoar rings. Credit: Paris Observatory ESA’s Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar During a break from looking at planets…
Isotope Analysis of Primitive Meteorites Reveals Solar System Formed From “Poorly Mixed Cake Batter”
A meteorite thin section under a microscope. Different colors represent different minerals, because light travels through them in different ways. The round mineral aggregates are…
Rendering of Jupiter Trojan Swarm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A rapidly migrating Jupiter mechanism offers crucial new insights into the early evolution of the Solar System. An…
This artist’s illustration shows the location and size of a hypothetical cloud of dust surrounding our solar system. Credit: NASA, ESA, Andi James (STScI) Exhaust…
New research from Caltech proposes a new solution to a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around young stars. The key to solving a…
An artist’s impression of the early solar system. Credit: Tobias Stierli / Flaeck / PlanetS The solar system’s chaotic early stages An international team of…
All stars, including our sun, are born from a cloud of dust and gas. This cloud can also seed planets that will orbit the star.…
A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the…
Artist impression based on JunoCam image of Jupiter acquired on July 21, 2021. Enhanced to highlight features, clouds, colors, and the beauty of Jupiter. Credit:…