Spacecraft buzzes Jupiter's mega moon, 1st close-up in years
NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided the first close-ups of Jupiter's largest moon in two decades.
Space Exploration
Jun 9, 2021
3
860
Page 39 - News tagged with solar system
How dark matter could be measured in the solar system
Pictures of the Milky Way show billions of stars arranged in a spiral pattern radiating out from the center, with illuminated gas in between. But our eyes can only glimpse the surface of what holds our galaxy together. About ...
Astronomy
Feb 8, 2022
16
511
Supernovae and progenitors may have contributed more dust to the solar nebula than thought
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, working with a colleague from Université Paris-Saclay, has found evidence that suggests supernovae and their progenitors may have contributed more dust to ...
UCLA professor proposes simpler way to define what makes a planet
Since the late 1980s, scientists have discovered nearly 5,000 planetary bodies orbiting stars other than the sun. But astronomers are still working on what exactly we should call them.
Astronomy
Nov 10, 2015
12
862
New millisecond pulsar discovered by astronomers
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6652. The newly found pulsar received designation PSR J1835−3259B. The study detailing the finding and disclosing ...
The search for life beyond Earth
Mars may now be considered a barren, icy desert but did Earth's nearest neighbour once harbour life?
Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2021
1
66
Measuring electrons from magnetically driven reconnection using lasers and aluminum foil
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China, working at the Shanghai National Laboratory of High-Power Laser Physics, has conducted measurements of accelerating electrons from a magnetically driven ...
White dwarf atmospheres might contain the pulverized crusts of their dead planets
Astronomers have developed a new technique to search for exoplanets—by looking for their crushed up bones in the atmospheres of white dwarfs. And it's working.
Astronomy
Feb 2, 2021
1
224
Solar system formation in two steps
An international team of researchers from the University of Oxford, LMU Munich, ETH Zurich, BGI Bayreuth, and the University of Zurich discovered that a two-step formation process of the early Solar System can explain the ...
Astronomy
Jan 21, 2021
6
609
How comets are born
Detailed analysis of data collected by Rosetta show that comets are the ancient leftovers of early Solar System formation, and not younger fragments resulting from subsequent collisions between other, larger bodies.
Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2016
20
547
