Solar system

The solar system is depicted with a collection of mysterious celestial objects. Its extraordinary existence makes the solar system difficult to explain scientifically. Earlier, scientists had discovered ice-spewing volcanoes on Pluto.…

On February 16, 2021 at 5:34 a.m. local time, NASA launched its Lucy mission into space aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket. From Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The mission, in development since 2014, is now on its way to…

Astronomer Scott Sheppard wrote an article on Perspective titled "In the shine of the sun" in the review Science. Sheppard is an astronomer at the University of Hawaii's Institute of Astronomy and believes scientists need to look closer…

The inner solar system spins much slower than the laws of modern physics predict, and a new study could help explain why. A thin disk of gas and dust, known as the accretion disk, spirals around young stars. These disks, where planets…

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After dazzling the world with the first images from the mighty James Webb Space Telescope this week, NASA released even more photos from the observatory yesterday, this time images of our own solar system. The space agency revealed…

Over the past few days, NASA has released stunning photos of nebulae, groups of galaxies, and even the "deepest" view of the universe taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Now the agency has released images of something much closer to…

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Primordial Solar Nebula, drawing. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) By Agostini via Getty Images Precise details about the beginnings of our solar system are extraordinarily difficult to obtain. But a research team…

A pair of missions to two asteroids near Earth are beginning to provide new information about when, where and in what form water first existed in the solar system.Why is this important: Water played a key role in the formation of planets -…

Neptune, the outermost planet in the solar system, can cause the destruction of the entire solar system, including Earth, if it is attracted to a passing…

A "hyperactive" comet expected to close in on Earth in less than two weeks will give scientists a window into the beginnings of our solar system billions of years ago.The comet, known as C/2017 K2, is thought to have been heading towards…

Artist's impression of the early solar system. Credit: Tobias Stierli / Flaeck / PlanetSThe Chaotic Early Stages of the Solar SystemAn international team of researchers led by ETH Zurich and the National Research Center PlanetS has…

A massive comet entering the final stages of a multimillion-year journey toward the sun has entered the inner part of our solar system and is expected to make its closest pass to Earth in July.Scientists have known about Comet C/2017 K2 for…

Neptune orbiter outlineThe proposed mission overview identifies a 2030 launch window that would see the probe launch on a Long March 5 rocket. It would reach Neptune at a distance of about 30 AU in 2040, via a flyby of Jupiter, and enter in…

Washington DC-The violent event that likely preceded the formation of our solar system holds the solution to a long-standing meteorite mystery, according to new work by Carnegie's Alan Boss published in The Astrophysical Journal. The raw…

There are only eight planets in our solar system (sorry Pluto), so the neighborhood can feel pretty empty. But there is more than 200 moons orbiting objects in the solar system, including planets and large asteroids.Many of these moons…

Our solar system is a magical place, much like the rest of the ever-expanding universe. Although we may not know much about the deepest regions of space and the secrets that lurk in the darker cosmos, we do know for sure that the universe…

A description of his Marginalian work: www.themarginalian.org/… "In October 1883, a National Capital newspaper reported under the headline "Current Gossip" that "an Iowa woman spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a…

The five bright planets fan out in order of their distance from the Sun across the sky from dawn until early July. One of the prettiest mornings to see them will be June 24, when a striking crescent moon joins…

Do you really know our solar system?Hematite spheres (or "Martian blueberries") as imaged by the Mars Exploration Rover. These are almost certainly evidence of past liquid water on Mars, and possibly past life. NASA scientists need to be…

The next time you look at a bright full moon, think about this: no one knows exactly where the moon came from. "We have no idea why the moon is here," science writer Rebecca Boyle said on Inexplicable - Vox's podcast that explores big…

An unusual blue-tinted asteroid likely got its signature color from intense sunlight, new research finds, solving a decades-old mystery.The blue color of the asteroid Phaeton has puzzled scientists since the space rock was discovered in…

A fifth of an ounce of dark spots brought to Earth from an asteroid by a Japanese spacecraft are among the most pristine bits of a baby solar system ever studied, scientists said Thursday. This fact should help planetary…

A fifth of an ounce of dark spots brought to Earth from an asteroid by a Japanese spacecraft are among the most pristine bits of a baby solar system ever studied, scientists said Thursday.This fact should help planetary scientists refine…

Asteroids and comets represent the material that remained after the formation of planets orbiting the Sun. Such bodies would have originally formed in a vast disk of gas and dust (protosolar nebula) around what would become the…

Artist's impression of the extrasolar object, which passed close to the Sun in 2017 (ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornme)The European Space Agency approved the construction of Comet Mission Interceptor, a small spacecraft designed to fly close…

New data shows that a comet discovered in 2014 is in the record books. This icy object, dubbed Bernardinelli-Bernstein, is the largest comet ever spotted. Comets are pieces of rock and ice that orbit the sun. These "dirty…

There is no doubt that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young solar system when rocks, boulders, and planetesimals repeatedly collided.A new study based on pieces of asteroids that crashed into…

There is no doubt that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young solar system when rocks, boulders, and planetesimals repeatedly collided. A new study based on pieces of asteroids that crashed into…

"Where are all the Trojans" is a valid question in both the study of ancient history and the study of exoplanets. Trojan bodies, which share orbital paths with other larger planets, are widespread in our solar system - most obviously in…

They are trapped.Two swarms of curious and diverse space rocks – called Trojan asteroids – are constantly traveling around the sun, one in front of the gas giant Jupiter and the other behind. Jupiter and the Sun's gravity have combined to…

Though rather small, Saturn's 310-mile-wide (500 km) moon Enceladus also got the star treatment in this latest 10-year report. That's partly because the Cassini mission saw plumes of liquid erupting from Enceladus in 2005. And where…

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Natural resources in space worth billions, if not trillions of dollars, are on the verge of contention between the United States and China. The two superpowers are aggressively vying for dominance in space and at the center of this rivalry…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is NASA's next major observatory; in line with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. JWST combines the qualities…

When you notice that faint glow of reflected sunlight in the dark sky just before dawn and after dusk, you are actually looking at the zodiacal dust cloud. Dust shrouds our inner solar system, and up to 30,000 tons of its particles drift…

A North County High School student skyrockets at the top of a national solar system research competition with a out of this world project. Dominic Alfinito won the Exploration of the Moon and Asteroids by…

When you notice that faint glow of reflected sunlight in the dark sky just before dawn and after dusk, you are actually looking at the zodiacal dust cloud. Dust shrouds our inner solar system, and up to 30,000 tons of its particles drift…

First visitors Humans have seen rocks falling from the sky for thousands of years. One of the earliest potential recorded accounts dates back to 1478 BC. AD, when, according to the Chronicle of Parian, a "lightning stone" fell on the…

Billions of years ago, when it first emerged from the clouds of gas and dust, the solar system was supposed to be in order. Then gravitational forces turned everything upside down.What happened in the first solar system was not exactly…

How did the planets form? How did the solar system evolve?Teacher. LIU Beibei from Zhejiang University School of Physics, in collaboration with Professor Sean Raymond of the University of Bordeaux in France and Professor Seth Jacobson of…

Thirty alien comets have been spotted transiting the young star Beta Pictoris, their long tails lighting up the skies of fledgling planets forming there.The comet discovery was made using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey satellite…

Following a thorough evaluation, NASA has extended the planetary science missions of eight of its spacecraft due to their scientific productivity and their potential to further our knowledge and understanding of the solar system and…

An asteroid is a rocky object in space that is smaller than a planet. Meteoroids are smaller space rocks than asteroids and can range from the size of a speck of dust to a large boulder. When a meteoroid enters the Earth's…

Eight interplanetary spacecraft attempt to continue their missions to Mars, the Moon or various asteroids.NASA has extended the work of these missions "because of their scientific productivity and their potential to further our knowledge…

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The solar system does not lack moons. Like the planets they orbit, they are each unique in their own way. Some moons are so large…

A kindergartener in 2005 and a kindergartener in 2006 would have learned very different facts about the number of planets in the solar system. 2006, of course, was the year Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet – a…

That's right. It's been a year since we launched this journey of curiosity, as Dustin Henderson of "Stranger Things" would say. There are few things greater than marveling together at the many splendors of the scientific world.I've loved…

See bigger. | Using these Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 images taken on January 8, 2022, astronomers have confirmed that the largest comet ever discovered is heading towards the inner solar system. Picture via Nasa.…

A huge comet with a solid center more than twice the width of Rhode Island is on an orbital path that will swing it inside our cosmic neighborhood, astronomers say. The icy intruder is traveling at 22,000 mph from the edge of the solar…

A meteor that hit Earth in January 2014 has now been confirmed by the US Space Command (USSC) as the first interstellar object from another…

A gigantic comet is in fact the largest ever seen, as confirmed by new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. Stretching about 80 miles (129 kilometers) in diameter, the core (or solid center) of the comet, known as C/2014 UN271…

ASTRONOMERS have confirmed the discovery of the largest comet on record – and it's getting closer. The space object C / 2014 UN271 was spotted last year and the observations of the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed this week the size of…

A US Space Command official says a meteor that entered Earth's atmosphere eight years ago came from beyond our solar system. A letter posted on Twitter April 7 by the US Space Command states that Dr. Joel Mozer, the Space Operations…

The Hubble Space Telescope, which has remained our eyes and ears in the mysteries of deep space, is in no mood to disappoint even after three decades of record service. The flying observatory has now revealed the largest icy comet nucleus…

A huge comet - about 80 miles in diameter, more than twice the width of Rhode Island - is heading our way at 22,000 miles per hour from the edge of the solar system. Fortunately, it will never come within a billion miles of the sun, which…

"Psyche" will travel a total of 2.5 billion kilometers in three and a half years beyond MarsNASA scientists plan to send a spacecraft beyond Mars to study an asteroid that could help explain how our solar system and the planets it contains…

A space rock that collided with Earth eight years ago could have come from outside our solar system, a US defense official has said, making it one of only two interstellar visitors ever detected .Earth is surrounded by space rocks. The…

The nucleus of comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) isolated from a vast shell of dust and ... gas surrounding the solid core of ice by the Hubble Space Telescope. SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Man-To Hui (Macau University…

About half a century ago, six Apollo missions and three Luna missions to the Moon collected rock samples. The former brought in some 380 kg, and the latter brought in less than ½ kg. The curators of…

After parts of India saw fragments of Chinese rockets slam into the sky like crashing meteors, a comet is expected to light up the skies in the coming month. C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS) is approaching the inner planets of the solar system and is…

Secondary school teachers seeking an authentic inquiry-based research opportunity for their students in the 2022-2023 school year are invited to apply for the Exploration of the Moon and asteroids by high school students (ExMASS). ExMASS…

Laurel Kornfeld April 3, 2022 A map of…

A team of Belgian-Dutch scientists has created the first-ever "treasure map" that shows where Antarctic meteorites are likely to be found. Meteorites are chunks of stone-like material that can be found on the Earth's surface after…

Impact crater dynamics expert Brandon Johnson surrounded by some of his favorite research subjects: Mercury, Mars and the Moon. Credit: Purdue University/Rebecca McElhoe Whereas for humans the constants might be death and taxes,…

Nasa confirmed that there are more than 5,000 known planets outside our solar system.The space agency recently added 65 more exoplanets to its archive, bringing the total to 5,005, meaning we could be one step closer to finding signs of…

NASA has confirmed the existence of 5,000 planets outside our solar system - and that number continues to climb.Astronomers first discovered a planet outside our solar system in 1992, opening up a new field of science that has grown ever…

What makes this NASA discovery really exciting is that some of these exoplanets found outside the solar system resemble Earth.…

Researchers have used drones and artificial intelligence (AI) to locate a freshly fallen meteorite in the vast Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia.The new method of locating meteorites developed by a team at Curtin University could…

Representative image. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)The materials that formed Earth may have been developed far back in the early solar system and later brought in during the solar system's turbulent history, a study suggests.Earth is thought to have…

Tokyo: A new study by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) has suggested that these asteroid materials could have formed very far away in the early solar system and then been transported…

The study also looked at the physical and chemical conditions of outer (representative) main belt asteroids.Tokyo: A new study by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) has…

Our solar system is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began gravitationally condensing around 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contracted, it began to spin and form into a spinning…

Illustration of the New Horizons space probe in the Kuiper Belt. These icy bodies are the remnants of the formation of the planets. At the edge of the solar system is a region called the Kuiper Belt. beyond the orbit of Neptune, this ring…

Fireballs Aotearoa wants you to go catch a shooting star.Or at least capture one on a camera. Fireballs Aotearoa is a collaborative effort of skywatchers, astronomers and amateur geologists from the University of Canterbury and the!--break-->…

What did Pioneer 10 and 11 do?Pioneer 10 started breaking records soon after its launch. As it headed for Jupiter, it became the first spacecraft to venture beyond Mars. Then, on July 15, 1972, the spacecraft entered the asteroid belt - a…

What are asteroids made of? Sample returned to Earth reveals building blocks of solar system Just over 12 months!-->…

https://br.sputniknews.com/20220219/cientistas-descobrem-como-construir-espaconave-que-cruzara-o-sistema-solar-em-tempo-recorde-21487541.html Scientists discover how to build a spacecraft that crosses the solar system in record time…