Friday, March 31, 2023

Solar system

Space dust could offer clues about alien life

A proposed way to search for alien life using tiny rocks ejected from other worlds.

Hubble monitors changing weather and seasons on Jupiter and Uranus

Ever since its launch in 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been an interplanetary weather observer, keeping an eye on the ever-changing atmospheres...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 15th close approach to the Sun

Dozens of observatories collected data during this encounter.

Astronomers observed the aftermath of DART’s asteroid impact

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two teams of astronomers have observed the aftermath of the collision between NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)...

Analysis of the Ryugu asteroid sample reveals it is organic-rich

Asteroid Ryugu has a rich complement of organic molecules.

Astronomers identified unknown class water-rich asteroids

Small planets originate from the edge of our solar system.

There are, in fact, four types of planetary systems

These four classes are 'similar', 'ordered', 'anti-ordered,' and 'mixed'.

Scientists have discovered a new ring system in our Solar System

The ring system orbits much further out than is typical for other ring systems.

Moon dust could help protect the earth from climate change

Could space dust help protect the earth from climate change?

Webb detects a previously unknown 100–200-meter asteroid

Extremely small main-belt asteroid.

Hubble, for the first time, directly measured the mass of a lone white dwarf

The unique observation yields insights into theories of the structure and composition of white dwarfs.

Darkest ever view of a dense interstellar cloud

The observations have revealed the composition of a virtual treasure chest of ices from the early universe.

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