As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like the formation of ozone and the breakup of gas molecules. A new approach for ...
A team of astronomers including professor Jane Huang have shown that extreme astrophysical environments can foster new ...
Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles ...
K2-360 b has a radius just shy of 1.6 times that of Earth, giving it a volume four times as large. Its mass, though, is 7.7 ...
Unlike Earth’s Moon, this mini-moon is a temporary visitor from deep space, poised to return to its solar ... simulation ...
It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...
How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System. Thanks ...
Astrogram banner TIME Recognizes the Advanced Composite Solar Sail SystemIn October, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System ...
Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...
Our solar system ... professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, discovered another small world called Eris in the Kuiper Belt — a vast ring of icy objects beyond Neptune’s orbit that also ...
A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.
Lux Aeterna has revealed the work that went into the VFX for BBC2 series Solar System.