The Solar System Is Moving Much, Much Faster Than Physics Can Explain
A new study with the incredibly exciting title of “Overdispersed Radio Source Counts and Excess Radio Dipole Detection”…
Before their big smashup, Theia and Earth were neighbors
View larger. | Theia and Earth collided about 4.5 billion years ago, as depicted in this artist’s concept.…
Our Solar System Is Moving Faster Than It’s Supposed To, Study Suggests
It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with…
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission has taken its first photo, and it’s good news
Mars is a planet that fascinates many scientists, notably regarding the presence of life elsewhere in the solar…
Moss Can Survive Long-Term Exposure to Elements of Space, New Experiments Show
A team of researchers from Japan has tested protenemata (juvenile moss), brood cells (specialized stem cells that emerge…
Europa Clipper captures an impressive image of Uranus at more than 3.2 billion kilometers
Artist’s illustration showing Uranus with its rings. (Image source: 95C – Pixabay) The Europa Clipper probe recently captured…
Trans-Neptunian Object Quaoar Has Two Moons, New Study Suggests
The newly-discovered moon has an estimated diameter of 38 km (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28,…
Three Heliophysics Spacecraft Observe Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
NASA’s STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory), the NASA/ESA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), and NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to…
Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy…
At The Edge Of Our Solar System, NASA’s Voyager 1 Found A ‘Wall Of Fire’
Nothing manmade has reached further from Earth than the Voyager series of spacecraft. Hurtling away from the sun…
Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy…
Theia, the planet at the origin of the Moon, may have formed close to the Sun
If the Moon is the natural satellite of the Earth, this has not always been the case. Indeed,…