Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Our solar system, in contrast ... “Breaking a classification scheme is sometimes what pushes science forward,” says Seligman. Much effort has been put into classifying the nearly 6,000 ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The paper explores the idea of using the lunar regolith—the thin layer of dust and small particles that covers the lunar surface—to fabricate glass for solar panels. The “moonglass ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan, told Live Science in an email. Astronomers have found dozens of new planetary moons ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799 ... an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute who ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

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