Asteroid Bennu Holds Traces of Ancient Water – And Maybe Life’s Origins
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Our solar system rocks: here’s all you need to know about it
Only a few human beings have even made it to the moon, much less other planets or out beyond the solar system, but a part of us has; two parts, to be exact ... a better map and our place in ...
JWST captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets ...
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Our solar system is not as unusual as we thought
They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...
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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
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NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object has ever been." NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its ...
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Astrophysicists predict origins of unexpected space objects in solar system and Alpha Centauri
Credit: University of Western Ontario Gregg, a Ph.D. candidate in physics and astronomy, developed a computer model to study our solar system, Alpha Centauri and the interstellar activity—the ...
Partial solar eclipse March 2025: Map, path, and best times to see the celestial event on Saturday
A partial solar eclipse will happen this weekend (Saturday, March 29) and will be visible in parts of the United States, ...
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Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...
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Solar System News
2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Mar. 13, 2025 — Water once existed ...