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Solar System
As we continue learning more about Mars, many find themselves very disappointed that we haven't spotted any bug-eyed green aliens living on the planet's surface yet. From the very looks of th…
Active worlds can turn up in unexpected places. For proof, look no further than the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been exploring Ceres, the largest object in the ast…
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a few days ago, decided to once again solve the problem of "what actually is a planet?" The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics held…
Just few days ago astronomers claimed to have to discover a Pulsar , PSR J0540-6919, which lies outside the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud nearly 163,000 light-years away. Pulsars ar…
For most of us, stuck here on Earth, we see very little of the rest of the Solar System. Just the bright Sun during the day, the Moon and the planets at night. But in fact, we’re embedded in a huge S…
As soon as our solar system was made from a spinning cloud of dust and gas, it came about to form in such a way that all planets assemble on a single plane. But through all of 3D space to select from…
Only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, has ever visited the ice giants Neptune and Uranus . That could be set to change next decade, as NASA is considering sending an orbiter to one of these planets. A repo…
Members of the Society For Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) have recently published a paper in the Journal of Space Exploration about certain features on the far side of the moon that appear in the cra…
According to experts, our Sun is tilted by about 6 degrees compared to the sun’s equator. The reason behind this has remained an astronomical mystery for decades. Now, experts believe they've fin…
For the first time, scientists have successfully studied clouds and wind on the night side of Venus. And they’ve revealed that it's very different from the day side. That vital data comes from E…
It’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy. In the ubiquity of solar output, Earth swims in an endless tide of particles. Every time half of the Earth faces the Sun, we experience the b…
With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German-led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and…
On the last day of the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage to talk about his company’s BFR project . Moreover, sharing details on how the …
Every 53 days, something rather wonderful happens. That’s when a small spacecraft built by us puny humans swoops past the gas giant Jupiter, returning stunning images and data. The images returned ar…
Uranus ‘opens wide’ on a daily basis to let in blasts of solar wind – then it clenches shut again, scientists have claimed. The solar system’s rudest planet has been in the headlines a lot lately, as…
A special thanks to Kunio Sayanagi at Hampton University, for his help with this video. The best way to explore a new world is to land on it. That's why humans have sent spacecraft to the Moon, V…
