Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to ...

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The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Astronomers Spot a 'Highly Eccentric' Planet on Its Way to Becoming a Hot Jupiter July 17, 2024 — The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit ...

being visible during its 88-day orbit for only "a couple of weeks at a time" each year. The line-up of three evening planets in the southwest twilight sky, on Dec. 17, 2021, with Jupiter at top ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

The Startup Pulsar Fusion is proposing a 2 Megawatt nuclear fusion orbital components for 2027. Pulsar has now proceeded to ...

The probe's destination is Europa, a moon of Jupiter coated with a shell of ice ... mission controllers commanded Europa Clipper to approach Mars' orbit in November of last year, followed by ...