Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have shifted on its axis after being hit by a large asteroid about 4 billion years ago, according to a new study. The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede is… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Flybys of Io, one of Jupiter’s moons and the most volcanically active world in our solar system, revealed a lava lake on the moon’s alien surface and a towering feature called “Steeple Mountain.” NASA’s Juno… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Flybys of Io, one of Jupiter’s moons and the most volcanically active world in our solar system, revealed a lava lake on the moon’s alien surface and a towering feature called “Steeple Mountain.” NASA’s Juno… Read More »
Chunks of debris from a shattered planet are irregularly spaced in a long, eccentric orbit around the white dwarf – Source: Dr Mark Garlick/The University of Warwick The ‘white dwarf’ star that could kill the Earth is already part of our solar system. When our sun dies it could ‘devour’ or tear apart our planet,… Read More »
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took one last look around the Saturn system and captured this image of the planet’s giant moon Titan. These images were obtained with Cassini’s narrow-angle camera on September 13, 2017. These are among the last images sent back by Cassini. Let’s go back to Earth. (NASA – image credit) “Are we alone?”… Read More »