Jupiter may have been a very early bloomer, gaining significant mass within the first million years of the solar system’s birth, according to a new analysis of meteorite fragments.
Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn that could host life, may have tipped over long ago.
Scientists have discovered black holes may be doing more damage to their surroundings than originally thought.
“There has been and is an existing ET presence. I spent more than anybody else in the U.S. has ever spent on this subject.”
An international research team led by a University of Washington astronomer has worked out the intricate dance of seven planets circling an ultracool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1, nailing down the coordinates of the outermost world in the process.
Everything you need to know about NASA’s plans to touch the sun.
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Forget everything you knew about gas giants, because based on the latest results from the Juno mission, we were wrong. We were so wrong.
Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.
Here are eight surprising things NASA has learned so far.
