Which solar system model is best? For as long as humans could look up at the night sky, we’ve been fascinated with the stars. How far away are they? Where did they come from? What secrets do they hide ...
Penn State’s Alex Wolszczan, the discoverer in 1992 of the first planets ever found outside our solar system, now has discovered with Caltech’s Maciej Konacki the smallest planet yet detected,in that ...
The passage of the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS through the inner solar system is prompting scientists and planetary ...
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A global infrared mosaic of Saturn’s moon Enceladus created using a complete dataset from the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA/LPG ...
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Astronomers have repeatedly observed events near a distant star that mirror processes from the early solar system’s ...
It’s always fun when an afternoon hike shows you the insignificance of our tiny planet. That happened recently when I journeyed to Heiligenmoschel, Germany, for a planet walk, a special type of ...