Webb Telescope Detects Gas on Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake for the First Time
An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake.…
Scientists accidentally measure ultrahot ring around black hole using rare ‘double zoom’ technique
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Is There Actually A Ninth Planet In Our Solar System? Here’s What We Know
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn’t by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious New World at Edge of the Solar System
A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered…
James Webb Telescope Finds Carbon-Rich Planet Nursery
In a cosmic twist worthy of a sci-fi plot, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to…
What did NASA’s Juno mission discover about Jupiter? Here are 5 mind-blowing findings..
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, peeling back layers of mystery around the Solar System’s…
Think Voyager was alone? Humanity has sent more missions to the outer solar system than you think!
The outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, have long fascinated astronomers and the public alike. These gas…
Inside the massive storm bigger than Earth
Voyager 2’s observations transformed planetary science. For the first time, astronomers could study the Great Red Spot as…
Webb discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists discover a new moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total…
Scientists Discover That Our Solar System’s Biggest Planet Was Once Much Larger, Playing A Huge Part In The Creation Of Other Planets » TwistedSifter
Kevin M. Gill/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS With a diameter of 88,846 miles at its equator, Jupiter is the biggest planet in…
Mars rover captures stunning blue skies on Red Planet | Features
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS via SWNS) By Dean Murray How’s this for a holiday snap? A robot has snapped an image…
Hubble Captures Most Detailed Images Yet of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
According to an analysis of the new images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the nucleus of 3I/ATLAS…