1,392 results for "solar system"

At the fringes of our cosmic neighborhood, a fascinating discovery has emerged, hinting at a hidden structure within the Kuiper Belt. This revelation challenges our understanding of the Solar System's…

Recent studies of Apollo 16 lunar samples and meteorites from the moon’s far side have revealed new insights into the moon’s ancient impact history. These findings not only deepen our…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected unusual jets of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide from Centaur 29P, one of the most active icy bodies in the outer solar…

Astronomers have discovered a new planet, Barnard b, orbiting Barnard’s star, just six light-years away. Using advanced instruments, the planet was confirmed to be a low-mass, rocky world that completes…

Scientists are exploring the possibility that primordial black holes, tiny remnants from the early universe, could pass through our solar system undetected. These black holes, far smaller than their stellar…

For years, astronomers have been hunting for Planet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet believed to be lurking at the far reaches of our solar system. Though it has never been...

Recent discoveries have shown that the outer Solar System is more crowded with celestial bodies than previously believed. Acombination of data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and NASA’s New...

In a significant breakthrough, the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, renowned for mapping stars in the Milky Way, has identified hundreds of previously unknown asteroid moons in our solar system....

Astronomers have discovered that Saturn ejected a fast-moving comet, designated Comet A117uUD, from our solar system at an astonishing speed of 6,700 miles per hour. This event, analyzed through extensive...

Recent studies suggest there may be a new, mysterious planet hiding in the Oort Cloud, far beyond the known boundaries of our solar system. This potential discovery could redefine our...

NASA's longest-running mission on Mars, the Mars Odyssey orbiter, has achieved an extraordinary milestone by completing its 100,000th orbit around the Red Planet since its launch in 2001. This remarkable...

Asteroid samples collected from Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have revealed fascinating details about the early solar system and the history of water in space. These samples, the largest ever...

Posted on Dec 30, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Cosmos, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories include If Aliens Contact Humanity, Who...

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in Science Today’s stories include Something is Missing from Quantum Field Theory to Will We Ever Define the Conscious Mind? and much more. Is Something’s...

Today’s stories range from Astronomers Might See Dark Matter by Staring into the Void to No Sign Found of a “Cosmic Dawn” to How to Make the Universe Think for...

Posted on May 17, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, Galaxies, Milky Way Galaxy, NASA, Origin of Life, Science, Science News,...

Posted on Feb 19, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Exoplanets Could one of the seven tightly packed planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system be the first exoplanet where the James Webb...

Posted on Dec 14, 2021 in Astronomy, Climate Change, Extraterrestrial Life Astronomers have said that Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. In science fiction movies and...

In 2019, scientists confirmed the existence of “superionic ice,” a new almost metal-like phase of water that is black and hot, first theoretically predicted more than 30 years ago. Although...

Another big week for “The Galaxy Report” with insights into our Solar System’s mysterious magnetic fields to  the first planet found to be orbing three stars to physicist Leonard Susskind,...

Posted on Oct 5, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, NASA, Solar System The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has announced that NASA has its sights set on visiting a mysterious giant asteroid...

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Science “Our solar system was most likely formed in a giant molecular cloud together with a young stellar cluster, and one or more supernova...

Recent research has revealed that Venus might have looked like Earth for three billion years, with vast oceans that could have been friendly to life. The early Venusian atmosphere was...

Posted on Jul 28, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Solar System Scientists using new and archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered for the first time evidence of water...

Posted on Dec 21, 2022 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science, Solar System Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Gary M. Bernstein,  Simon Portegies Zwart,  BBC and...

Was Venus the first habitable planet in the Solar System? NASA intends to find out. “It is astounding how little we know about Venus, but the combined results of these...

Posted on Apr 2, 2021 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalist about the discoveries, technology, people, and events...

It might be a good time for the Oxford University Union to schedule a debate between two Arizona State astronomers and Harvard’s intrepid Avi Loeb, author of the recently published...

Posted on Feb 11, 2021 in Astronomy, Science The discovery in 2018 of the most distant known object at the very edge our solar system, a planetoid aptly named “Farfarout,”...

“Venus is like Earth in so many ways,” explained the late physicist, Stephen Hawking. “A sort of kissing cousin. She’s almost the same size as Earth, a touch closer to...

Posted on Jan 3, 2021 in Science (For the Holiday Season, from Christmas through the New Year’s Weekend, we’ll post 2020’s most viewed articles as ranked by Google Analytics.) “Using...

“The idea of the existence of advanced extraterrestrial life is no more speculative than extra dimensions or dark matter. It fact, he says, it is less so,” says Harvard astrophysicist,...

Posted on Dec 4, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Milky Way Galaxy, Science “Gaia is measuring the distances of hundreds of millions of objects that are many thousands of light years...

Posted on Dec 17, 2020 in Science Scientists suggest that there may be evolutionary parallels on the different worlds because creation tends to be economical. In what could someday lead...

“Something is the cause of the fact that there aren’t a huge amount of UFOs out there,” says Uffe Gråe Jørgensen, head of Astrophysics & Planetary Science group at the...

“Human blood is a testament to life’s origin in the ocean,” observed marine biologist Jacques Cousteau, “its chemical composition is nearly identical to that of sea-water.” New research funded by...

On April 10, 2019 the astronomers at Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative were asking what does the glowing bright orange ring around the now iconic black hole the size of our...

Posted on Sep 21, 2020 in Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

Posted on Sep 12, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science “The search for planets is the search for life,” said Natalie Batalha, a Kepler mission scientist from NASA’s Ames Research Center....

Posted on Sep 21, 2020 in Science “Beyond Anything Found in Our Solar System” “Cosmic ‘Funhouse’ Mirrors Reveal Unexplored Reaches of the Universe” “Undiscovered Phenomena” — Mystery of Gold in...

Posted on Aug 28, 2020 in Discovery, Evolution, Science If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water, underscoring the fact that Earth is the only planet...

“Using the pulsars we observe across the Milky Way galaxy, we are trying to be like a spider sitting in stillness in the middle of her web,” says Vanderbilt’s Stephen...

Posted on Jun 9, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics Astronomers using the Very Large Array have solved a long-standing mystery about warm, dense inner regions of  the envelope of young stellar...

Posted on May 5, 2020 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

Posted on May 6, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Science, Solar System “There must be hundreds of millions of black holes out there, but we know about only very few....

Posted on May 9, 2020 in Astronomy, Science, Solar System Imagine living on a planet with constant storms with thunderheads reaching 40 miles from base to top — five times...

Posted on May 1, 2020 in Astronomy, Science The researchers believe that an active nearside tectonic system on the moon was actually set in motion billions of years ago with...

ESA scientists observe that it cannot be proven whether the particular cloud of dust and gas that gave birth to our Sun collapsed as a result of the collision with...

Posted on May 12, 2020 in Astronomy, Evolution, Science, Solar System In January, 2000, an asteroid,  harboring some of the oldest fluids in the solar system, burst into Earth’s atmosphere,...

Posted on May 2, 2020 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Space One of the primary open questions of astrobiology is whether there is extant or extinct life elsewhere the Solar...