Solar system

Astronomers have made the first estimates of the types of rocks that exist on planets orbiting nearby stars. The team discovered that the rock types are made up of exotic and diverse materials that are not found anywhere in the solar…

TORONTO - Our entire solar system and some nearby stars could be surrounded by a vast magnetic tunnel, according to a Canadian scientist who has developed a unified theory to explain two features that exist in space. In…

Imagine Jupiter and its small asteroids as a cosmic Halloween setting on the front porch of the solar system. The planet itself - swirling, stormy, the largest in the solar system - is the pumpkin, while the tiny asteroids accompanying it…

As in any family, there are always a few quirky parents who somehow just don't fit in or, for some reason, parade to the beat of a different drum. This is also the case with our solar system family members; while…

Comet 29P / Schwassmann-Wachmann is perhaps one of the most exotic objects in our solar system, exploding again and again with what is called "cryomax" as it travels through space.…

An MIT study suggests that a mysterious gap existed in the solar system's protoplanetary disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the makeup of the solar system's planets. This image shows an artist's interpretation of a…

Go back the cosmic clock a few billion years ago and our solar system was very different from what it is today. About 4.5 billion years ago, the young Sun shone like it does now, albeit a little smaller. Instead of being surrounded by…

The 1I / ʻOumuamua (or simply Oumuamua, if you prefer) is an object from outside the solar system that was identified in 1024 and, almost two years later, it was the turn of comet 2I / Borisov to be discovered wandering here. Although…

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUN Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask an astronaut" and "Space radio, "and author of"How to die in space. ”Sutter contributed this article to The expert voices of Space.com:…

The planets of the solar system are varied in their appearance. Mercury is slate gray while Venus is pearly white, Earth a vibrant blue and Mars a dark red. Even the gas giants are different, Neptune and Uranus opaque blue, while Jupiter…

About 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system housed a gap in the protoplanetary disk, near where the main asteroid belt is today, and likely shaped the makeup of the planets, according to one study conducted by scientists at MIT. This…

The sun and the objects that orbit it make up the solar system. Among these objects, the planets are well known and have been the subject of research for a very long time. Scientific research has given rise to many theories and…

The artist's concept shows a white dwarf with a gas giant planet and orbiting debris. It's a glimpse into the future of the solar system. Picture via WM Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko. Scientists now have proof that some of the planets…

Asteroids can really be anything. Most of them are space rocks, but those rocks could be anything from ancient pieces of planetary crust to protoplanets that never did. Psyche even stands out among some of the strangest…

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In a new revelation, astronomers have now claimed that our solar system was divided into inner and outer regions long before it was formed 4.5 billion years ago. A Daily Mail report suggested the study was conducted by researchers at…

South West Research InstituteArtist illustration of the Lucy concept.On Saturday, NASA launched its Lucy mission to study Jupiter's Trojans - clusters of asteroids that precede and follow the gas giant orbiting the Sun.A sensor built…

New York, October 17 At the start of the solar system, a "protoplanetary disk" of dust and gas circled around the sun and eventually merged into the planets we know today, according to a…

Far on the border of the outer solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt, where hundreds of thousands of small objects orbit the sun. Most of these objects are small rocky asteroids, but some are known…

In a new attempt to find the origin of our solar system, the US space agency on Saturday launched the Lucy mission, the agency's first to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.Launched atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V…

An MIT study suggests that a mysterious gap existed in the solar system's protoplanetary disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the makeup of the solar system's planets. This image shows an artist's interpretation of a…

How will the solar system die? This is an extremely important question that researchers have speculated a lot about, using our knowledge of physics to create complex theoretical models. We know that the Sun will eventually become a "white…

Breadcrumb Links Local News Peter G. Brown, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, claims the meteorite made its way to Earth on October 3, after leaving its orbit in the asteroid belt…

Nasa Tomorrow, October 16, NASA will launch the Lucy mission into space - it will set sail for the Trojan asteroids, with the aim of discovering the first stories of our solar system. Thought to hold the unused remnants of the…

The Lucy spacecraft, shown here in an artist's impression, will fly past six Trojan asteroids near Jupiter.Credit: NASA A NASA spacecraft is about to begin its journey to a realm in the outer…

Artist's impression of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwestern Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI) In the near future, astronomers will benefit…

If there's one thing our solar system doesn't lack, it's rocks.Small rocks, big rocks, dry rocks, icy rocks. Rocks that look like other rocks. It's the rock system, really - we live here too. For all their prevalence, however, these…

Steven Hobbs/Stocktrek ImagesGetty Images A smaller planet like Earth or Mars could have been pushed to the edge of our solar system (or into deep space), according to a new paper.Scientists think…

Our solar system will host another comet as scientists have identified another massive space rock rushing toward the sun. Researchers studying the comet have estimated its potential arrival in 2031, or in ten years. Discovered in…

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The biggest comet ever detected, Bernardinelli-Bernstein, is heading towards our solar system.The comet is located 29 astronomical units (AU) - 29 times the distance between Earth and the Sun - and is therefore expected to arrive in about a…

Tools of the tradeTo help understand the origins of the asteroid, the mission scientific inquiry will rely on a magnetometer, a gamma and neutron spectrometer and a multispectral imager. Scientists know that the asteroid does not generate…

A massive comet - so large that scientists had previously mistaken it for a dwarf planet - is hurtling through space toward our solar system and is expected to arrive in about 10 years, according to new research.…

In a new video posted to its official YouTube channel, NASA explained how important Trojan asteroids are to understanding the formation of our solar system. The new video was released as part of the "We asked a NASA scientist"series that…

Of course, that's not the end of the story.In an email, Dr. Loeb complained, among other things, that if Oumuamua was composed of nitrogen, it should also contain carbon (which was not detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope), because the…

On Saturday, women and their allies will march through cities across the country, including the Tampa Bay area. The Women's Marches will draw attention to women's rights, including the right to access safe and legal abortions. WMNF…

The Lucy mission has passed all of its pre-launch tests and is expected to leave the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station around 5:30 a.m.ET on October 16. The Trojan asteroids, which borrow their name from Greek mythology, orbit the sun in…

No Pluto, you're still off the list Our solar system is still full of surprises and in a recent article published in the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, it seems that we have returned to the number of 9 planets, but this…

Talk about comets or asteroids approaching us and the mind immediately reverts to what happened to the dinosaurs. It just needed a rock in space to end the reign of these formidable reptiles that dominated almost the…

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A massive comet, larger than two moons of the planet Mars combined, is approaching our solar system. The Bernardinelli-Bernstein mega-comet, named after Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein, has been dubbed the largest comet…

In a recent study, researchers from the International Dark Energy Survey Project, or Dark Energy Survey, discovered new data on comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein. This star, officially called object C / 2014 UN271, has a diameter of!-->…

PHOTO / UNSPLASH, NASA.Ryan Park, Assistant Associate Professor of Astronautics Practice at USC Viterbi School of Engineering, was recently appointed Vice Chairman of the X2 - Cross-Division AF Commission Solar System Ephemerides.Below is a…

Artist's impression of the asteroid beltNASA / JPL-Caltech A fireball beautified the night sky over India on January 23, 1870. Accompanied by a thunderous detonation, the flaming mass crashed into the…

Here on Earth there are many examples of mighty volcanoes of all shapes and sizes, but this geological formation is not exclusive to this "pale blue point". Other worlds in the solar system also have volcanoes - and in this article you…

If you've ever looked at a model of the solar system, you've probably noticed that the sun, planets, moons, and asteroids lie roughly on the same plane. But why is this?To answer this question, we have to travel to the very beginning of…

TOPSHOT - The SpaceX Falcon Heavy sits on Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on ... February 5, 2018, ahead of its demonstration mission. - SpaceX is preparing to launch the first test on February 6 of its…

When we talk about the solar system, we are usually talking about the Sun, the planets, and a handful of asteroids that are very close to the orbits of Jupiter, Mars or just after Neptune. However, in addition to dwarf planets like…

The Dark Energy Surveillance Camera (DECam) in the SiDet cleanroom. The Dark Energy Camera was designed specifically…

Billions of years ago, gravity caused a large cloud of gas and dust to collapse within its own structure. The result of this collapse is the solar system we know today, made up of our star, eight planets, many moons, and a multitude of…

In the near future, astronomers will benefit from the presence of new generation telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST). At the same time, improved data mining and machine…

Astronomers have detailed that a "dog-bone" asteroid challenges human understanding of our solar system. SEE THE GALLERY - 2 IMAGES Astronomers recently used the European Space Agency's Very Large Telescope to take what are now considered…

The far reaches of the solar system are a strange and mysterious place. Beyond Neptune's orbit, where it is cold and dark, a swarm of icy objects called the Kuiper Belt orbits the Sun, believed to be more or less unchanged since the birth…

This page presents our resources for those who want to learn more about Mission Lucy. It includes activities that can be done at home as well as videos, animations, stories and articles. Follow the Lucy Mission via #LucyMission and…

The asteroid belt could just as easily be the wreckage of the solar system. Asteroids, comets and other objects floating in it are mostly junk from eons ago. So if so much garbage exists in the asteroid belt, then where is the…

The asteroid belt could just as easily be the dumping ground for the solar system. The asteroids, comets, and other objects floating around there are mostly garbage from eons ago. So if there is so much waste in the…

A representative image of the distance of the planets in the solar system to the Oort cloud | Communal room Text size: A- A + New Delhi: Scientists have discovered that the Oort Cloud, a…

A recently discovered asteroid is standing near our sun - much closer than our own planet Earth.The asteroid, called 2021 PH27, orbits the sun every 113 days and approaches within 20 million kilometers of our star.This gives this space rock…

Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our solar system and is believed to be a proto-planet. NASA's Dawn spacecraft visited Vesta in 2011. The mission revealed two massive impact craters and a few strange hollows…

The solar system: it's big, it's heliocentric, and there is space trash to spare. Here are 24 Amazing Facts about the corner of space that hosts Earth, enough asteroids for Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis to…

“Oumuamua, the first interstellar object discovered near Earth, left us with more questions than answers. The visitor was first observed upon exiting the solar system, and the limited data that astronomical observatories were able to…

The young star GM Aur eats gas and dust particles from a protoplanetary disk, which is represented by the green…

Asteroid Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our solar system. With a diameter of about 330 miles, it orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids have long played a role in building popular fascination…

Asteroid Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our solar system. With a diameter of about 330 miles, it orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids have long played a role in popular fascination with…

An astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science has just discovered a new asteroid, and it's the fastest orbiting asteroid in our solar system, but speed is just one of the weird attributes of space rock. Unexplored space:…

An artist's design of the recently discovered asteroid 2021 PH27, which has the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and the second shortest for any object in our solar system after Mercury. Illustration by Katherine Cain…

introduction The planetary system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything gravity-bound to it - the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,…

An illustration of the 2021 PH27 Orbit, by Katherine Cain and Scott Sheppard, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science. | carnegiescience.edu Text size: A- A + New Delhi:…

Comets other star systems, such as 2019 Borisov, visit the Sun's vicinity more frequently than scientists had thought, a new study suggests.The study, based on data collected Borisov zipped through Earth at a distance of about 185 million…

The recent detection of 2I / Borisov, the first known interstellar comet to visit our solar system, implies that interstellar objects outnumber non-interstellar objects in the Oort cloud, while the reverse is true near the Sun in due to…

In the past four years, astronomers have spotted two visitors to the solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. Both have provided an abundance of data that will be…

The Oort cloud at the edge of our solar system could be filled with interstellar objects, scientists say.The new document comes in the wake of the arrival of Borisov, a snowball that made its way to Earth in 2019 and turned out to be from…

A new asteroid zips around the sun faster than any of its known relatives.The space rock, known as 2021 PH27, orbits our star once every 113 Earth days, according to its discoverers. It is the shortest orbital period of any known object…

The most recent NASA asteroid data paints a grim picture. There are over 25,000 asteroids circling the solar system like a huge pack of hungry wolves, and over 9,000 of them are listed as near-Earth objects. But these are only the ones we…

Carolyn Shoemaker, one of America's greatest female astronomers, has passed away. Remarkably, she ** started ** her astronomical career in 1980, at age 51! In the 1980s and 1990s, she used films taken with the Palomar Observatory's…

Scientists say it was a "dark asteroid" that killed the dinosaurs after it slammed into Earth 66 million years ago. They estimate that the six-mile space rock comes from the outer edges of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,!-->…

NASA's mission to study the asteroid Psyche Highlights Asteroid Psyche is the largest!--component_10>…

An asteroid said to be filled with precious metals worth over 10,000 quadrillion dollars (8,072 quadrillion pounds) is currently in our solar system. Asteroid "Psyche 16" is a 124-mile-wide space rock that orbits the sun in the asteroid!-->…

The star L 98-59 is only 35 light years from Earth and its orbiting planets have attracted the interest of experts. Two of them, closest to the star, are probably dry, but an "ocean world" could be a prime candidate to support alien life.…

Without engaging in any fundraising, Loeb has already secured enough seed money to launch the Galileo project, and he has put together a research team that includes scientists (currently working on a voluntary basis) from Caltech, Cambridge…