10 interesting facts about our solar system that will surprise you

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

NASA study explores human reproduction risks in space

A new study by NASA scientists explores the risks and challenges of human reproduction in space, especially for long missions to Mars.

NASA Telescope Spots A Temperate Super-Earth And It's Closer Than Expected

Astronomers have just discovered TOI-1080 b, a rocky super-Earth located approximately 83 light-years away. Spearheaded by a team from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, follow-up ...
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Inner solar system tour explains Mercury, Venus, and Mars

Mercury, Venus, and Mars sit within the same general neighborhood as Earth, yet each has followed a radically different path. One kept a magnetic field against the odds. Another trapped so much heat ...

NASA's Hubble telescope just saw the space version of a white whale

For practically as long as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has circled Earth, astronomers have wanted to use it to see a comet ...

How common are fireballs streaking across the sky?

Space rocks are constantly hurtling toward us, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs that both ...

CHEOPS discovery defies planetary formation rules

We're starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history is, as more exoplanets are discovered. A fourth exoplanet discovery in the LHS 1903 system made by ESA's CHEOPS mission ...
Scientific American

There might be less water on the moon than we’d hoped

Analyzing images of the moon’s darkest areas from ShadowCam, a NASA instrument on the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, the study’s authors determined that, in most of the moon’s darkest craters, water ...
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Alien life could look nothing like what we expect. Here's how microbes beyond Earth might live without liquid water

Every known living thing on Earth needs water. The life-giving liquid makes up around 60 percent of each human’s body weight, regulating temperature, transporting nutrients to cells and protecting ...
Los Alamos Reporter

PEEC Presents ‘Strange New Worlds: NASA’s Exploration of the Solar System’ March 27 At Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium

This solar system montage of the nine planets and four large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a false-color view of the Rosette Nebula Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU PEEC NEWS RELEASE ...
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NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket arrives back at the launch pad

NASA's SLS rocket is back at the launch pad as the space agency gears up to launch Artemis 2 astronauts on a mission around ...
The Manhattan Mercury

Hubble Space Telescope captures rare comet breaking apart

Space scientists have captured a comet breaking into pieces by accident. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope witnessed the incredibly rare event while searching for another cosmic target. The comet K1, ...