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NASA gets its planet-hunting telescope back online after glitch

NASA's extrasolar planet hunter TESS is pausing observations while it works to recover and go back to finding distant worlds.

Inverse · Oct 13, 2022

NASA's asteroid deflection mission was more successful than expected. An expert explains how

On September 26, after a nine-month journey through the Solar System, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted an asteroid called Dimorphos.

The Conversation · Oct 12, 2022

Our Place in Space: Full guide to Liverpool solar system sculpture trail 2022

The trail is free to visit and features models of the sun and planets

Liverpool Echo · Oct 10, 2022

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Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years

Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise. In 1969, NASA’s Apollo missions installed reflective panels on the moon. These have shown that the moon is currently moving 3.8 cm away from the…

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2022

Earth’s most powerful asteroid impact may be even bigger than we thought

But new research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets arrives at a different size and impact velocity for the Vredefort impactor.

Inverse · Oct 8, 2022

Stargazing in October: Halloween fireballs

This month, we’ll enjoy a display of Orionid meteors, writes Nigel Henbest

The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2022

Draconids: You need to see the most unpredictable meteor shower peak this week

The Draconids may not be as prolific as some meteors but they are fascinating none-the-less.

Inverse · Oct 3, 2022

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Study: Analysis of asteroid reveals unexpected evidence of mini-ocean — and carbonation

Asteroid Ryugu has some dangerous seltzer for you, according to recent analysis by Japanese scientists on samples returned from JAXA's Hayabusa2.

Inverse · Oct 1, 2022

Glass beads in lunar soil reveal ancient asteroid bombardments on the Moon and Earth

In 2020, China’s Chang'e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of Moon rock and soil and brought it back to Earth. The samples contain countless tiny beads of glass, created when asteroids hit the Moon and splashed out droplets of molten rock around the impact site.

The Conversation · Sep 28, 2022

Stargazers share Jupiter photos in planet's closest approach to Earth for generations

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, mad its closes pass to Earth since 1963 last night, with several stargazers heading outside to catch a glimpse of it

Daily Mirror · Sep 27, 2022

How a Canberra space station played an essential role in NASA's DART asteroid mission

As the world watched NASA complete the globe's first full-scale planetary defence test, few knew the crucial role played by a team on the outskirts of Australia's national capital.

ABC News · Sep 27, 2022

In a world first, NASA's DART mission is about to smash into an asteroid. What will we learn?

On September 26 at 11.15pm UTC, NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will be the first to deliberately and measurably change the motion of a significant body in our Solar System. In other words, it will smash into an asteroid.

The Conversation · Sep 25, 2022

Giant solar system trail coming back to Northern Ireland in 2023

It has already been experienced by over 300,000 people in Derry, Belfast and Cambridge to date

Belfast Live · Sep 25, 2022

Huge solar system sculpture trail coming to Liverpool on UK tour

The Our Place in Space 8k trail will begin on Church Street and run all the way to Otterspool

Liverpool Echo · Sep 23, 2022

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Roll Call · Sep 23, 2022

Congress is about to lose its science guy - Roll Call

He brought his math Ph.D. (and his solar system tie) to the House. Now Rep. Jerry McNerney is planning his next AI chapter.

ABC News · Sep 22, 2022

NASA releases clearest view of Neptune's rings in decades

NASA has released its first image of Neptune captured by the James Webb Space Telescope as it shows off its capabilities within our home solar system.

Inverse · Sep 20, 2022

Saturn's rings were once a moon ripped apart by bizarre forces

Resonance with not-so-near Neptune destabilized the moon 100 million years ago.

The Conversation · Sep 19, 2022

For the first time, robots on Mars found meteorite impact craters by sensing seismic shock waves

Since 2018, NASA’s InSight mission to Mars has recorded seismic waves from more than 1,300 marsquakes in its quest to probe the internal structure of the red planet. The solar panels of the car-sized robotic lander have become caked with Martian dust, and NASA scientists expect it will completely power…

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The Conversation · Sep 19, 2022

Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself – and astronomers are discovering more of the billions they think are out there

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found a few particularly interesting planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their parent stars.

Inverse · Sep 18, 2022

The Solar System could be littered with alien artifacts — even on Earth

Some space scientists believe radio sensing or detecting non-human techno-signatures maybe the best way to find alien life. But others believe there may be physical objects waiting to be found, too.

France 24 · Sep 16, 2022

Violent death of moon Chrysalis may have created Saturn's rings

Discovered by Galileo 400 years ago, the rings of Saturn are about the most striking thing astronomers with small telescopes can spot in our solar system.

Inverse · Sep 13, 2022

10 years ago this week, a groundbreaking NASA technology changed spaceflight forever

The Dawn mission used state-of-the-art ion thrusters to change orbits between bodies in visits to Vesta and Ceres, two Solar System time capsules.

Inverse · Sep 11, 2022

Astronomers find a shocking culprit that shaped Earth's continents

Sure, asteroids did some of the work. But a few came from the fringes of our Solar System — and were kicked in by other stars.

Inverse · Sep 8, 2022

One unusual planet type could be abundant in the universe — study

A new study of exoplanet densities reveals that many are about 50% water, whether it’s liquid or ice.

Inverse · Sep 7, 2022

Look! Astronomers explore the Orion Nebula's radiation-scorched cloud

Gargantuan young stars blast this region with ultraviolet radiation, and that may play a key role in how solar systems eventually form.

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