It turns out that Saturn isn’t the only married planet in the solar system. A European telescope has found a new dwarf planet right here at home, and it too has a ring. The largest object found to orbit our sun since Pluto was discovered in 1930…
The skies of Venus may contain signatures of alien life, according to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the search for alien life, the second planet from our Sun has long been ignored. It's easy to see why: the Ve…
Researchers reported auroras around Jupiter’s two largest Galilean moons for the first time and found new features in the auroras of volcanic Io and icy Europa. The auroras are visible on the moons during an eclipse, said an author of the studie…
The ring is so far from the dwarf planet's surface that its material should have coalesced into a moon. But somehow, it didn't. Top Image Credits: Dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring of material that defies the rules of physics. (Image credit: E…
The Milky Way’s galactic center is orbited by the Sυп, Earth, and the entire solar system at a blistering 140 miles per second. Even at this great speed, though, oυr planetary пeighborhood still takes about 200 million years to make one complete…
On November 5, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 joined its sister aircraft Voyager 1 beyond the heliosphere, ‘ the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by our Sun ’. Considered a ‘ watershed moment in our exploration of space ’, five…
Astronomers have discovered 20 new moons around Saturn, bringing the total to 82. This outnumbers Jupiter, which previously held the record with 79 moons. One of the new moons has the most distant known orbit around Saturn, and they are all abou…
Enceladus has fast progressed from being simply another little Saturnian moon to prime ground for answering the fundamental question: are we alone in the universe? No one believes Enceladus could harbour intelligent life, but if it does, it would p…
Saturn continues to be one of the true show-stoppers in this hype-filled era. However, time is crucial. Saturn is in opposition on August 14 and is at its brightest. This jewel-like planet with rings is at its best right now! Both novice telesco…
Venus is our closest planetary neighbor, and above its oppressive surface, in the clouds, there is a mystery. In the planet's clouds, scientists have discovered traces of phosphine, a substance that may be produced by living organisms. In Ve…
This photo from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the Earth as seen from the surface of Mars, shining brighter than any star in the Martian night sky. Earth is the bright point of light a little left of the image’s center and our moon can be seen just …
Astronomers have warned that if a passing star moves Neptune’s orbit by just 0.1 percent, the resulting chaos could cause the other planets in our solar system to collide. This outstanding research, presented in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astr…
Scientists are discovering all sorts of amazing history told by the meteorites found scattered across the Earth’s surface. Now a team led by Jean-Alix Barrat, a geochemist from the University of Western Brittany in France, have announced in a study…
Gravity is a fundamental force of physics, one which we Earthlings tend to take for granted. You can't really blame us. Having evolved over the course of billions of years in Earth's environment, we are used to living with the pull of a ste…
It’s almost impossible to believe, but this image of Neptune was not taken by a spacecraft near the giant planet. It was instead taken by a telescope right here on Earth. The amazing picture was snapped with the MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Ex…
