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This map of volcanoes on Venus is best we've ever made (image)

Scientists have built the most detailed map of the distribution of volcanoes on Venus, which is also the most complete volcano map of all planets in the solar system.

Space

How long will it take for humans to colonize another planet?

There's a huge difference between sending humans to Mars and colonizing worlds outside our solar system.

LiveScience

April delights: Mercury, Venus and the Pleiades put on a sky show this month

From now through mid-April, Venus will help you to identify the normally hard-to-find planet Mercury. And along the way, Venus will have a striking interaction with the Pleiades star cluster.

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Rare red asteroids around Neptune could reveal the secrets of the early solar system

Scientists have observed that some of Neptune's Trojan asteroids are deep red, possibly revealing what asteroids may have been like in the early days of the solar system.

LiveScience

Surprise! Icy 'rain' from Saturn's rings is heating the gas giant's atmosphere

Icy 'rain' from Saturn's rings is heating the gas giant's atmosphere, a phenomenon never seen in the solar system before, a new study suggests.

Space

See Venus meet up with Uranus in the sky tonight (March 31)

The solar system's hottest planet (Venus) and its coldest one (Uranus) will be in conjunction tonight (March 31), offering a rare opportunity for skywatchers.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope finds a 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet that defies expectations

The atmospheres of gas giant planets across the Milky Way galaxy can be very different from those in the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope has found.

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Why is Mercury so weird? Blame the giant outer planets.

Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with simulations of the solar system's formation. But now, researchers have found an important clue.

Space

Humdrum comet or alien spacecraft?

A new article redraws the scientific debate over the origin and properties of our first interstellar visitor

Salon

What equipment do you need to see and photograph the planets

Follow this guide on how to photograph and observe the neighboring worlds of our solar system.

Space

Scientists finally solve puzzle of 'alien spaceship' in sky with unusual shape

Back in 2017, when 'Oumuamua was first discovered, it was seen moving away from the Sun, which led scientists puzzled, while some thought it could be signs of an alien spaceship

Daily Mirror

Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests

A draft paper by a Harvard scientist and the head of the Pentagon's UFO office has raised the idea an alien mothership could be in the solar system, sending out tiny probes dubbed "dandelion seeds" to explore the planets within.

Space

Want to see Uranus? The crescent moon points the way tonight (March 24)

The crescent moon will act as an excellent guide for skywatchers hoping to spot the distant solar system ice giant Uranus on Friday (March 24) with the celestial bodies making a closely separated in the sky.

Space

Alien Fossils Could Be Hiding in Meteorites on Earth — Study

The new study suggests looking at the bottom of the ocean or elsewhere for traces of microbial life.

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The Conversation

Four volcanic hotspots in the Solar System

Evidence for current volcanic activity on the planet Venus has recently made the news. But Venus is far from the only world beyond Earth to exhibit signs of volcanic activity.

Tribune News Service

5 planets will parade across the sky in rare astronomical event, while skyscraper-sized asteroid flies by Earth

More than half the solar system’s planets will align Monday in a rarely seen spectacle, arcing across a corner of the night sky.

Space

Sorry, E.T. fans: Interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua isn't an alien spacecraft. It's just passing gas.

Since its arrival in the solar system in 2017, interstellar object 'Oumuamua has puzzled scientists. Two American astronomers now think they have solved one of the space rock's biggest mysteries.

Tribune News Service

Upcoming rule overhaul has California rooftop solar installers working in overdrive

Stellar Solar has been in the rooftop solar business for more than 20 years, but company co-founder Michael Powers has never seen his Oceanside, California-based operation so busy.

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Scientists think they know why interstellar object 'Oumuamua moved so strangely

A strange comet-like object discovered over five years ago was the first known visitor from another solar system. Its movement was so odd that scientists struggled to explain it, until now.

Inverse

New Study Proposes Why an Interstellar Object Suddenly Accelerated — And It’s Not Aliens

A recent study proposes a non-alien explanation for interstellar object Oumuamua's weird behavior in 2018.

The Conversation

New asteroid sample study offers further hints of space origin for the building blocks of life on Earth

How did life come about? The answer to this question goes to the very heart of our existence on planet Earth.

Inverse

Earth's First Asteroid Defense Test Yields Bonus Discoveries for Astronomers

The planetary defense test was a rousing success, but it also offers a glimpse of our Solar System's eventful past.

Space

Huge solar tornado as tall as 14 Earths hurls plasma cloud into space. Here's the video.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured what might be 'the tallest tornado' in the solar system swirling across the north pole of the sun.

Daily Mirror

Aliens could be hiding in 'terminator zones' just out of our view, expert claims

A scientist has warned that aliens could be hiding in 'terminator zones', the dark side of planets outside our solar system that orbit stars and are partially hidden from our view

Zenger

Water On Earth Came From Edge Of The Solar System Carried By Meteorites

We wanted to understand how our planet managed to get water and how water on Earth came from edge of the solar system

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