Saturn’s Strange Ring-Heat Phenomenon: Solving a Solar System Mystery
A Rain of Icy Particles Is Affecting the Giant Planet’s Weather The planet Saturn is easily recognizable for its opulent ring system that can easily…
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The Far-Flung Origin of Life’s Building Blocks: Researchers Uncover “Completely Unexpected” Findings
Imperial College London researchers have discovered the probable distant origin of Earth’s volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks of life, through the…
Astonishing Discovery Reveals Water in Our Solar System May Have Originated Billions of Years Before the Sun
ALMA Traces History of Water in Planet Formation Back to the Interstellar Medium Observations of water in the disk forming around protostar V883 Ori have…
Astronomers Discover Missing Link: Water on Earth Is Even Older Than Our Sun
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. This water carries a…
Astrophysicist Reveals Planet That Could End Life on Earth
Experiment demonstrates our solar system’s fragility. A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system…
Earthly Applications of Cosmic Dust: Unveiling the Secrets of Interstellar Dust Grains
Gaining insight into the formation of dust grains in interstellar gas could provide astronomers with valuable knowledge and assist materials scientists in creating useful nanoparticles….
How Was the Solar System Formed? An Ancient Asteroid Is Helping Us Learn
UCLA scientists have uncovered that minerals found on the asteroid were formed as a result of interactions with water over 4.5 billion years ago. Mineral…
Unraveling the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life: The Role of Interstellar Clouds
The researchers replicated the conditions of an interstellar cloud and an asteroid to gain a deeper understanding of how carbonaceous chondrites acquired amino acids. A…
Space Mystery: Unexpected New Ring System Discovered in Our Own Solar System
ESA’s Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar During a break from looking at planets around other stars, the European Space Agency’s CHaracterising…
Isotope Analysis of Primitive Meteorites Reveals Solar System Formed From “Poorly Mixed Cake Batter”
New work reveals Earth’s potassium arrived by meteoritic delivery service. Earth’s potassium arrived by meteoritic delivery service finds new research led by Carnegie’s Nicole Nie…
A New Explanation for the Mystery of Jupiter’s Asymmetrical Asteroid Swarms
A rapidly migrating Jupiter mechanism offers crucial new insights into the early evolution of the Solar System. An international team of scientists led by Jian…
Hubble Detects Mysterious Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System
Exhaust from Infalling Comets Makes Space a Dusty Place Imagine walking into a room at night, turning off all the lights, and closing the shades….
New Solution to Old Mystery: Why Doesn’t the Inside of the Solar System Spin Faster?
The key to solving a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around young stars: the motion of a tiny number of charged particles. This…
Complete Chaos: Scientists Unravel the Early History of the Solar System
The solar system’s chaotic early stages An international team of researchers led by the ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS…
Instability at the Beginning of the Solar System – Implications for Mysterious “Planet 9”
The Instability at the Beginning of the Solar System A new explanation for why our solar system is the way it is — and why…
Why Venus Rotates, Slowly, Despite Sun’s Powerful Gravitational Pull
The planet’s atmosphere explains the gravity of the situation. Venus, Earth’s sister planet, would likely not rotate, if not for its soupy, fast-moving atmosphere. Instead,…
Jupiter’s Origin Story: Intriguing New Details on the Gas Giant’s Formation Journey
Researchers of the University of Zurich (UZH) and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS have investigated Jupiter’s formation history in great detail….
Searching for Planet Nine: What Is Lurking in the Outer Reaches of Our Solar System?
The Solar System has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, the same class as contains Eris, Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres, and…
