Solving a Paradox to Uncover Key Clues About Our Solar System’s History
New clues lead to a better understanding of the evolution of the solar system and the origin of Earth as a habitable planet. In a…
New clues lead to a better understanding of the evolution of the solar system and the origin of Earth as a habitable planet. In a…
One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in…
A long time ago — roughly 4.5 billion years — our sun and solar system formed over the short time span of 200,000 years. That…
In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team of researchers, including planetary scientist and cosmochemist James Lyons of Arizona…
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions….
Two NASA-JPL proposals are among the selections: Trident would explore Neptune’s moon Triton, while Veritas aims to map Venus’ surface to determine the planet’s geologic…
Today, November 11, 2019, we’re in for a rare treat, as the innermost planet, Mercury, passes directly in front of the Sun for a few…
About 70,000 years ago, when the human species was already on Earth, a small reddish star approached our solar system and gravitationally disturbed comets and…
New research from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission provides the most definitive analyses, theories and results about local interstellar space to date. The new research…
In a newly published study, NASA IBEX data reveals the never before seen boundaries of the tail of the heliosphere, the heliotail. NASA’s Interstellar Boundary…
By testing meteorites, a team of scientists discovered that levels of iron 60 were uniform and low in early solar system material, suggesting that that…
One of the widest accepted models for the Moon’s formation states that a renegade, Mars-sized planet, named Theia, slammed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago,…
Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. Located at the center of this system…
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have been able to probe into the chemical signatures of dusky disks encircling four distant star systems. They discovered…
By using photochemical upconversion, researchers from the University of Sidney have developed a “turbo for solar cells” that allows for record-breaking efficiency in cost effective…
This new map was published last Monday by the USGS and it showcases the hellish surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active object…
As one of the coldest places in the solar system, Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is also one of the most dynamic. A new collection of…
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have come up with a new explanation for planetary accretion. By using classical physics and the laws of…