Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
Why is Pluto no longer a planet?
In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...
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Telescope finds ‘interstellar tunnel’ within our solar system’s hot bubble
The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
Right now, the Sun is far more active than predicted – and small satellites are paying the price
The Sun’s activity is what gives us beautiful auroras – but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...
Rare space event made us think all the wrong things about this solar system planet
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
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Scientists found 'nitriles' in an interstellar cloud — here's why that could be huge
"There seems to be no limit for the degree of chemical complexity that interstellar space is able to fabricate." ...
A formula for life? New model calculates chances of intelligent beings in our universe and beyond
The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...
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James Webb Space Telescope finds galaxies pointing toward a dark matter alternative
A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...
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Astronomers' theory of how galaxies formed may be upended
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...