Could convection in the crust explain Venus's many volcanoes?
Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...
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Everything Under the Sun
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...
Webb Telescope Captures Neptune’s Long-Hidden Auroras in Stunning Detail
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...
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Three families of planetary objects identified in the outer Solar System 🔭
Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...
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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
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Neptune’s auroras captured in detail for first time
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spotted bright auroral activity on the most distant planet in our solar system.
This Is the First-Ever Image of Neptune’s Auroral Glow
Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...
As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration
Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...
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Hinks students participate in STARLAB planetarium experience
Hinks Elementary students listened to a special presentation about outer space from Rodney Bisher inside STARLAB, an ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 meters), which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a ...
Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
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Our solar system is not as unusual as we thought
Astronomers have discovered more than 300 exoplanetary systems that have three or more known planets. Most of these planets are about the same size and spaced close together, earning them the moniker ...