As spacecraft zooms to Venus, it peers back at humble Earth and the moon
"These two little marbles we call our cosmic home were photographed by Juice from over 5 million km [3.1 million miles], as ...
Bus-size asteroid being sucked toward Earth will become ‘temporary mini-moon’
The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...
Colossal Exoplanet 11 Times the Mass of Jupiter Is Just 300 Light-Years Away
In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently ...
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“Hellish Landscape” of Jupiter’s Moon Io Enhances Case for Life on the Planet’s Icy Moons
Cornell University astronomers studying Jupiter's moon Io say tidal heating may help support life in the oceans of Jupiter's ...
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Iron winds and molten metal rains ravage a hellish hot Jupiter exoplanet
"Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere." ...
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Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466 Million Years Ago
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
Earth Might Have Had a Ring 466 Million Years Ago
Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...
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Juno captures photo of huge new volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
NASA's Juno mission reveals a massive new volcano on Jupiter's moon Io, showcasing its dynamic volcanic activity.
Jupiter-bound JUICE probe snaps photo of Earth, the moon and Uranus
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission photographed the Earth, moon and Uranus as it heads toward Venus for a gravity assist next year.
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Earth May Have Once Had a Saturn-Like Ring, New Study Says
The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...
NASA's flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant.
Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...