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Panama is the latest nation to officially recognize the rights of nature. After a year of debate in the country's National Assembly, President Laurentino Cortizo signed legislation that recognizes the Panamanian ecosystem as "a unique,…

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…

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…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have recently glimpsed the distant future of Earth. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently discovered…

Planetary debris, including some moon-sized objects, may hint at a rocky exoplanet in a stellar zombie's habitable zone, according to a new study.The star in question is a white dwarf called WD1054-226, a cooling remnant of a star that has…

(Inside Science) -- For a few nights more than 9,000 years ago, when many of our ancestors wore animal skins, the northern sky would have been bright with twinkling lights. Telling chemical isotopes in ancient ice cores suggest that one of…

NASA's James Webb Telescope is preparing to officially begin science operations later this summer. And scientists are already excited that it is starting to scan distant worlds for signs of life.There are plenty of places to look, of…

See bigger. | Artist's concept of the furthest outgoing spacecraft from Earth, Traveler 1, launched in the late 1970s. The circles represent the orbits of the main outer planets of our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.…

University communication Today This artist's concept depicts two celestial bodies crashing into each other, creating a disc of mostly molten, partially vaporized rock that…

MeerKAT radio view of the central regions of the Milky Way, highlighted by bright red emissions surrounding the galaxy's central black hole. Image: I. Heywood, SARAO. Have you ever wondered what you could see if your eyes were sensitive…

Using a new crater detection algorithm, which automatically counts impact craters visible from a high-resolution image, a team of planetary researchers from the United States, Australia, the Ivoire et de France analyzed the formation of…

By Jennifer Ferreira Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Not only is Earth in the midst of its next mass extinction event, but it may be too late to undo the damage inflicted on the planet's…

It was the first material to be returned to Earth from a carbon-rich asteroid. These asteroids can reveal how our cosmic corner of the universe formed. The organic and hydrated minerals locked in these asteroids could also shed light on…

(Inside Science) - Mars is known for its dust storms, which can cause problems with lander equipment and block the sun that powers solar panels. These violent storms, which can last for weeks, have already caused property damage and even…

University of California researchers studying meteorites have revealed violent new pieces of the puzzle from the early days of our solar system. A new article on meteorites says scientists…

We do not say what the universe could throw at us. Just when some of us think we know all about it, a new discovery throws all that smugness out of the park. Scientists have now spotted one of the smallest planets ever…

An illustration of a red dwarf star orbiting an exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI) An international team of researchers has discovered a new planet, GJ 367 b, whose surface temperature can reach 1,500 degrees centigrade – hot…

This illustration shows a recently discovered exoplanet called GJ 367b, located about 31 light years from Earth and orbiting its star in just about 8 hours, with a density greater than that of our planet and an internal structure similar to…

TRAPPIST-1 would be an ordinary star without the scientific interest aroused by its seven planets. Astronomers first spotted the new worlds, of which at least three could be habitable, in 2016. Now, a new study suggests that how the…

A new study suggests that a million years ago, glaciers began to adhere more persistently to their bed, triggering cycles of longer ice ages. Here the ice has been discharged from the Icelandic glacier Breiðamerkurjökull en route to the…

Composition of asteroids, meteorites, planets impacted by an abyss in protoplanetary dust, gas Scientists have found evidence of a barrier between the inner and outer regions of the young solar system.By analyzing the composition of…

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…

Where the asteroid belt is located today, there was a mysterious hole in the early solar system. If you go back a few billion years on the cosmic clock, our solar system would look very different from what it is today. The young Sun was…

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…

Astronomers have for the first time detected something believed to be common in young, developing solar systems. A team led by MIT researchers has discovered evidence of a massive planetary…

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…

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…

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…

(Inside Science) - Centaurs are among the strangest objects in the solar system. The first, nicknamed Chiron, was spotted orbiting more than a billion kilometers from the Sun in 1977 and was originally considered an asteroid. But a few…

In a distant star system - just 1,300 light-years from Earth - UNLV researchers and colleagues have identified the first known planet orbiting three stars. Unlike our solar system, which consists of a lone star, half of all star systems,…

AMHERST, Mass. - A twelve billion year old mystery of the early universe; the paradox of a recurrent supernova; the unknown process governing the growth of stars: these are among the topics recently explored in a remarkable…

A sparkling approach Aptly named after the son of the Sun god in Greek mythology, Phaethon has an orbit of 524 days which brings him down to just 0.14 astronomical units - where 1 AU is the average distance between Earth and the Sun -…

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

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 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 Tyrannosaurus rex (T-Rex) skeleton, named STAN, is on display during a press preview at Christie's Rockefeller Center on September 15 in New York City. 66 million years ago, a huge celestial object struck off the coast of present-day…

In 1801, astronomers discovered the first body in the asteroid belt, a region of the solar system between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. Called Ceres, it was understandably originally classified as an asteroid. Today, over 200 years…

"Not only will our own asteroid belt be destroyed, but it will be done quickly and violently."Angry sunBefore it finally goes out, scientists say, our Sun will suddenly become so bright that it will reduce the entire asteroid belt to dust,…

According to new research by scientists at the University of Warwick and the University of Colorado, scientists at Boulder, electromagnetic radiation from stars at the end of their giant branch phase - lasting only a few million years.…

A new study from the University of Florida has found that 85 percent of our solar system's asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is made up of the remains of five or six ancient little planets.The lead author of the recently published…

It's exciting to watch the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 come closer to the chosen asteroid and start observing it up close, but there are still things we can learn about them from here. A new study has determined that 85% of our solar…

The asteroid belt may have started empty, later becoming a "cosmic refugee camp" taking the remnants of planetary formation from across the solar system, according to a new study.The main asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars…

The study claims that C-type asteroids, which contain carbon, were blown out of gas giants while S-type asteroids, which contain silicates and are mainly found in the inner asteroid belt, originated from rocky planets. ."Models of the…

According to current estimates, there could be as many as 100 billion planets in the Milky Way alone. Unfortunately, finding evidence for these planets is difficult and time consuming work. For the most part, astronomers are forced to…

from NASA Dawn spacecraft launched in 2007 with a mission that didn't get much press attention. The small craft was heading for the asteroid belt, where it would be tasked with studying the development of protoplanets, or celestial bodies…

Last week, scientists announced in a study in Nature that Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, spews water vapor into space. In fact, this big ball of rock and ice could hold more water than Earth. It is a fascinating…

Asteroid belt discovered around Vega Press release from: University of Arizona Posted: Friday January 11th 2013…

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PASADENA, Calif. — Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a wide belt of asteroids around the star Vega, the second-brightest star in the northern night sky. The scientists used data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the…

Many objects found today in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the far reaches of the solar system, according to an international team of astronomers led by scientists from the Southwest Research…