NASA's New Horizons found the solar wind slows as it nears interstellar space, helping improve models of the solar system's ...
In 2015, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope identified one of the most Earth like planets ever discovered, Kepler 452b. It orbits ...
Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...
Space looks empty until you try to cross it. Far beyond Pluto, where sunlight is faint and the planets are long behind, ...
The Solar System is far more diverse in size than it appears from Earth. From tiny rocky worlds to massive gas giants, each ...
Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...
Two massive planets may have once existed in early solar system before being ejected, leaving behind evidence in unusual ...
Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...
A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from ...
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Why do Venus and Jupiter meet in the sky so often? It's a symptom of a solar system that hosts life
As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are critical for life to survive on Earth.
The northern lights could mean lights out for the infrastructure we rely on.
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