Fantasizing about interplanetary exploration is a fun mental exercise, but the harsh realities of life (or lack thereof) in our Solar System is for good reason.
Rewind 3.8 billion years to the end of the solar system's most violent chapter: the Late Heavy Bombardment. This video reveals what happened when the final wave of asteroids and comets crashed into ...
New research shows how the star's powerful outbursts could help scientists assess which worlds might support life.
Not all of Saturn’s moons are visible in space; however, some can be bright enough to be traced by a reliable telescope from ...
Abstract: In the above article [1], the affiliation for all authors was mistakenly shown. And the correct affiliations are with the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of ...
Scientists find that two hot stars passed near our solar system 4.4 million years ago, altering nearby interstellar clouds.
Summary: Time doesn’t flow uniformly across the solar system, and new research reveals just how differently it unfolds on Mars compared with Earth. By tracing subtle gravitational and orbital ...
A new Traveller expansion, Orbital 2100 from Zozer Games, sets up a cold war between the Earth and Moon using 2d6.
The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.
In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...
The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...
On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab.