Southward Impact Excavated Magma Ocean at Moon’s Biggest Crater: Study
Roughly 4.3 billion years ago, when our Solar System was still in its infancy, a giant asteroid slammed…
Cassini Detects Organic Molecules in Freshly Ejected Ice Grains from Enceladus’ Ocean
Saturn’s moon Enceladus continuously ejects a plume of ice grains and gases originating from its subsurface ocean via…
6,000 planets confirmed beyond solar system – Firstpost
Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a dramatic leap…
Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper
For over two months, astronomers have been closely following an interstellar object — dubbed 3I/ATLAS — as it…
Inouye Telescope Captures “Landmark” Images of Solar Flares
Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation emitted by the sun during solar storms, standing as the most…
Strange Green Glow From Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Has Scientists Puzzled
Images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS snapped during the September 7 total lunar eclipse seem to suggest that the…
New satellites will give 30-minute warning of solar storm emergencies
54717.jpeg None The risk of solar storms is growing, Nasa said last week, threatening astronauts, satellites, power networks…
Webb Detects Complex Structures in Upper Atmosphere of Saturn
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a series of dark, bead-like and asymmetric star-shaped…
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.…
Martian North Polar Vortex Creates Seasonal Ozone Layer, Planetary Scientists Say
The polar vortex is a consequence of Martian seasons, which occur because the planet’s axis is tilted at…
What We Know about Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
After 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, 3I/ATLAS is the third object and the second comet from outside the Solar System…
Solar system ‘time capsule’ meteorite hunt underway in Scotland
Hikers in Scotland are being asked to assist scientists in a “race against time” to recover fragments of…