Search results for Solar System Small Body

Space Exploration Apr 24, 2024

Pushing the limits of sub-kilowatt electric propulsion technology for space mission concepts

NASA has developed an advanced propulsion technology to facilitate future planetary exploration missions using small spacecraft. Not only will this technology enable new types of planetary science missions, one of NASA's ...

Planetary Sciences Apr 22, 2024

Radiating exoplanet discovered in 'perfect tidal storm'

Can tidal forces cause an exoplanet's surface to radiate heat? This is what a study accepted to the Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a team of international researchers used data collected from ground-based instruments ...

Astrobiology Apr 21, 2024

Crucial building blocks of life on Earth can more easily form in outer space, says new research

The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on the ...

Space Exploration Apr 12, 2024

NASA unveils probe bound for Jupiter's possibly life-sustaining moon

US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter's icy moons as part of humanity's hunt for extra-terrestrial life.

Planetary Sciences Apr 9, 2024

'Swallowed,' torn up or live on: How Earth will fare when the sun dies

Our solar system and everything within it—including the Earth—will look very different when the sun dies.

Environment Apr 5, 2024

Sensitive interventions to catalyze China's net-zero transition in energy and transport

The global energy transition could happen sooner than anticipated if sensitive intervention points are used to deliver China's carbon neutrality policy at the city-level, researchers from the University of Oxford and The ...

Astrobiology Apr 4, 2024

Why there may be oceans inside dwarf planets beyond Pluto—and what this means for the likely abundance of life

Earth was long thought to be the only planet in our solar system with an ocean, but it is beginning to look as though there are underground oceans inside even the most surprising icy bodies.

Plants & Animals Apr 4, 2024

A natural history of the Red Sea and the uncertain future of its corals

Early in May 2023, a small team of marine biologists arrived in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. They'd flown into the local airport from Guam, the United States, Portugal, Spain and Japan, and they'd soon rendezvous with ...

Astrobiology Apr 1, 2024

Meteorites: Why study them? What can they teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

Universe Today has explored the importance of studying impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, astrobiology, solar physics, comets, planetary atmospheres, planetary geophysics, and cosmochemistry, and how this myriad ...

Planetary Sciences Mar 31, 2024

Distant 'space snowman' unlocks mystery of how some dormant deep space objects become 'ice bombs'

A new study is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about distant objects in the far reaches of the solar system, starting with an object called the space snowman.

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