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…
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…
Cataclysmic crash with neighboring planet may be the reason there’s life on Earth today, new studies hint
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Why This Weekend May Be The Best Time To See The Perseid Meteor Shower
Topline The annual Perseid meteor shower may have peaked overnight on Monday and Tuesday, but it did so…
The Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight — How To See It At Its Best
Topline The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak overnight on Monday, Aug. 12, through Tuesday, Aug. 13, with…
Strange New Object Found In Solar System ‘Dancing’ With Neptune
Topline Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving…
Neptune Dances in Sync With a Rare Distant Object, Astronomers Find
For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described…