Farthest human-made object in space loses contact from Earth
NASA briefly lost contact with Voyager 1 in mid-October after the nearly 50-year-old spacecraft stopped transmitting a detectable…
Meteorite Found in Sahara is Piece of Mars at Least 4.1 Billion Years Old
Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in Mali four years ago, is a fragment of…
The Solar System Has a New Life Expectancy, and It’s a Billion Times Shorter
Isaac Newton suspected that the gravitational dance between the Sun and Jupiter would eventually destabilize the solar system,…
Cassini Reveals Surprising Diversity in Salt Grains from Enceladus’ Ocean
A new analysis of nearly 1,000 ice grain measurements from Saturn’s E ring shows that Enceladus’ salty ocean…
Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else
This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO), a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the…
New Study Explains Why Venus Has No Moon
Dr. Stephen Kane from the University of California, Riverside and colleagues offer a tidy explanation for one of…
Solar system’s smallest planet shrinking faster than we thought
There’s less Mercury in the system. Scientists found that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, is shrinking far…
Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side Are Rewriting Lunar History
Moon rocks returned from a rarely sampled region are offering a new view of the Solar System’s turbulent…
Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid
Chinese researchers believe they may have found the most effective way to destroy or deflect a large, Earth-threatening…
Neptune’s moon system is bizarre. James Webb Space Telescope data helps explain why
Neptune has a very strange moon system. The farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System has…
Astronomers Found the Sun’s Missing Silver Hiding in Plain Sight
Theoretically, the Sun shares its chemical origins with meteorites that are billions of years old. But for decades,…
11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us our first look at Pluto’s surface in spectacular detail.…