Solar System
216 Kleopatra – The Dog-Bone Asteroid
September 14, 2021 | EditorsUsing ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of scientists has obtained the most detailed observations yet of the asteroid 216 Kleopatra –aka the dog-bone asteroid – an asteroid with two tiny moons shaped like a dog bone. Read More
Spectacular Sunset Captured aboard ISS
May 22, 2021 | EditorsWe’ve all seen the iconic image of earth from space: the classic image of Earth, the ‘Blue Marble’, taken on December 7, 1972, depcting our planet as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. Read More
Evidence Of Life Inside Jupiters Moon Europa
June 28, 2020 | EditorsJupiter’s moon Europa has been long viewed as a potential habitat for alien life beyond Earth. Now, a new research reveals that the subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon, hidden beneath the thick shell of ice, should be able to support life. Read More
Why Doesn’t Venus Have Water? Blame Electric Wind
June 21, 2016 | EditorsVenus, our nearest neighbor, is one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system, it’s surface is often said to resemble the classical images of Hell, a really awful place that will kill you in less than 10 seconds. Read More
Now We Know What is Beneath Jupiter Clouds
June 5, 2016 | Editors 3People have been captivated by the mighty gas giant Jupiter for centuries, with its powerful swirling clouds and the iconic glowering red eye… really interesting, but we’ve no idea what lies beneath those colorful cloud layers, until now! Read More
There’s a Giant Coronal Hole In the Sun Right Now
May 29, 2016 | Editors 2This week, NASA’ Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a remarkable phenomenon on the sun’s surface, a giant hole known as coronal hole taking up more than 10% of our sun’s surface. Read More
Mars Ocean Experience Mega Tsunamis Billions Of Years Ago
May 21, 2016 | Editors 2We’re still learning new things about the planets orbiting our own star; Yesterday, a group of astronomers announced that mega tsunamis on Mars probably helped shape the Red Planet’s terrain. Read More
A Nearby Supernovae Stripped Mars Atmosphere
May 8, 2016 | EditorsToday’ Mars is very cold, very dry and very inhospitable, practically a dead place but this wasn’t always the case, things were very different in the ancient past. Read More
Ice Crust In Europa Is Much Hotter Than We Thought
April 17, 2016 | EditorsGeoscientists from Brown and Columbia universities have run a set of experiments designed to understand how much heat is created when ice is deformed. Read More
Primordial Super-Earth May Have Been Devoured By The Sun
April 16, 2016 | Editors 1Two scientists from the University of Nevada Las Vegas have suggested the existence of at least one super-Earth in the early days of the solar system located within the orbit of planet Mercury which ended up being devoured by the Sun. Read More
Structure Of Planet 9: What’s It Made Of?
April 8, 2016 | EditorsResearchers at the University of Bern in Switzerland have created a detailed model of the hypothetical world Planet 9 to figure out the structure of this world. Read More
Mystery of Enceladus Geysers Solved By Researchers
April 3, 2016 | EditorsSince NASA’ Cassini spacecraft observed the famous geysers erupting on Saturn’s moon Enceladus in 2005, the phenomena that drives and sustains these eruptions has baffled scientists, but now researchers may have finally solved the mystery. Read More
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