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'Like nothing we've seen before': James Webb telescope spies a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid lurking past Jupiter

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.

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Venus, Mars and more: How to see planets in the night sky in 2025

Your guide to viewing the visible planets of the solar system in the night sky of 2025.

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Asteroid-comet chimera Chiron has an unusual ice mix, James Webb Space Telescope finds

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the solar system.

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Interactive: What Earth’s 4.54 billion-year history would look like in a single year

As a kid, it was tough for me to grasp the massive time scale of Earth’s history. Now, with nearly two decades of experience as a geologist, I think one of the best ways to understand our planet’s history and evolution is by condensing the entire timeline into a single…

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2 populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell researchers where the Earth got its oceans

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place.

The Conversation

Human artifacts abandoned on Mars should be cataloged to track our migration beyond Earth

Just as Homo sapiens once exploded out of Africa to colonize the Earth our influence is spreading in the solar system. New research says we must track the cosmic migration to Mars.

Space

NASA detects more dark comets

Dark comets are comets that are so small, fast and/or chemically rare that they are difficult to see from Earth

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NASA solves 44-year-old mystery of why Jupiter's Io is so volcanically active

Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. Now, NASA scientists have revealed how and why.

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Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought

Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, but nearly as old as the giant planet itself at billions of years in age, a new study says.

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What is a dark comet? A quick guide to the ‘new’ kids in the Solar System

In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar System.

The Conversation

Astronomers discover 7 new 'dark comets,' but what exactly are they?

By doubling the number of known "dark comets," astronomers have been able to split them into two camps depending on their location in the solar system.

Space

Study finds that Astronomers discovers smallest main-belt asteroids ever

The majority of known asteroids orbit inside the main asteroid belt, which is positioned between Mars and Jupiter at an average distance. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Dramatic changes on Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter revealed in 10 years of Hubble Telescope images (video)

The space agency has learned a lot over 10 years observing the weather of our solar system's outer planets.

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Mysterious interstellar object may have altered solar system orbits, study says

Massive object passing through solar system is a better explanation for nature of orbits of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune

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Solar system quiz: How well do you know our cosmic neighborhood?

Test your knowledge on our solar system, from the biggest and smallest planets to the behemoth mountain on Mars.

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The yearning for Uranus: A far-out world with a tale to tell

A proposed mission known as Uranus Orbiter and Probe would conduct a multiyear orbital tour to yield knowledge of ice giants in general and the Uranus system in particular.

Space

Scientists find secret comet in the asteroid belt — how many others are there?

Main-belt comets that scientists keep finding could provide new insights into the birth of our solar system.

Space

Dwarf planet Ceres could be rich in organics, defunct spacecraft data reveals

Data from a now defunct NASA spacecraft has revealed a massive internal reservior of organic material within the second wettest solar system body, Ceres.

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Scientists are updating chemistry models to track down life on icy moons

Scientists are using chemical modeling to dissect whether life exists on icy moons in our solar system.

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A super-Earth beyond Mars would have made Earth nearly uninhabitable

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the asteroid belt is today. The results are enough to make you grateful that we only have eight planets.

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The 2025 Flying Spur Is the Perfect Bentley: First Drive Review

At this very moment, our solar system is hurtling through space at 450,000 miles per hour—a fact that is equal parts fascinating and terrifying. Yet, even as the solar system flies at a rate our tiny monkey brains can hardly comprehend, here on Earth we don't feel a damn thing.

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Earth's '2nd moon' escapes our planet's orbit — will it ever return?

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away from our planet in an orbit around the sun.

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'There are lots of mysteries in our backyard': Revised solar system chemistry explains long-standing puzzles

Pluto and other large bodies in the Kuiper Belt are surprisingly rich in rock rather than ice. It may be because the early solar system consisted of much more carbon than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Space

Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system.

The Conversation

A distant planet seems to have a sulphur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we’re steadily learning more about the exoplanets we’ve already detected: their sizes, what they’re made of and whether they have atmospheres.

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