Scientists compile library for evaluating exoplanet water
By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s Perplexing Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
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Dead Star Consumes Material From Planets In Hubble Data
Bacon (STScI) Evaporating extrasolar planet, from Video (artist's impression ... Christensen) Flight through our Solar System ...
Sunspots and solar flares, created by the sun’s magnetism, can affect the Earth’s surface
The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...
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Why is Pluto not considered a planet?
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Can we live on our planet without destroying it? Researcher investigates planetary boundaries
With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...