Study warns solar storm risks may be much worse than thought | Features
Illustration of solar wind streaming from a fuming sun drives auroras bright enough to be seen far from…
NASA signs $590M in moon deals; total program cost unknown | News
(The Center Square) – NASA awarded $590.4 million in new Moon Base lander contracts Tuesday, but the agency…
NASA’s New Horizons Reveals a Hidden Interstellar Slowdown at the Solar System’s Edge
For obvious reasons, the Sun’s influence weakens as you get closer to the edge of the solar system.…
Scientists Think Uranus and Neptune May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined
Before the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus and Neptune, these two distant planets were thought to be cold,…
Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only known satellite in the solar system to feature an atmosphere, which…
Europa life theory: Study explores whether Earth microbes reached Jupiter’s icy moon |
Europa has long occupied a special place in discussions about extraterrestrial life. Beneath its fractured shell of ice…
The ‘Persian Gulf of Space’: NASA study says Saturn’s moon Titan holds vast natural gas and water reserves |
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may one day become one of humanity’s most valuable destinations beyond Earth. A recent…
Is Planet Nine Real? New Discovery at the Edge of the Solar System Adds a Twist
The Sun’s gravitational pull extends more than 160 times further into space than Neptune. Credit: Vadim Petrakov The…
Rare meteorite points to a long-lost planet from our early solar system
A meteorite found in the Sahara is forcing scientists to rethink what kinds of worlds once circled the…
Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins
The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator,…
Astronomers detect winds from a black hole reaching 30% of the speed of light
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing two black holes. Recently, astronomers have detected powerful winds in a…
Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert
The solar system as we know it today began to form roughly 4.6 billion years ago, with the…