When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration showing a rogue planet orbiting a very distant point around the solar system. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva) The next time you think your collecting habit is getting out of control, you can console yourself… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows a comet exiting the solar system after encountering Saturn. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva) Scientists have discovered a comet heading out of the Solar System after a close encounter with Saturn. The comet, dubbed… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Photo: Yuichiro Chino/Xuanyu Han/Getty Images This article was originally published at: Speech. The publication contributed the article to Space.com Expert Voices: Views and Opinions. Sam McKee He is a researcher and assistant lecturer/tutor in the philosophy of science at… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of exoplanets around a star, with its magnetic field shown in green. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA A planet’s chances of hosting life depend not only on its proximity to its parent star and the… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows the moon Ariel orbiting the ice giant Uranus. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that Uranus’ moon Ariel may be hiding in a buried ocean… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of a hot Jupiter orbiting a red dwarf star. | Credit: T. Müller (MPIA/HdA) Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a new “super-Jupiter” planet that is one of the coldest worlds ever… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. (Left) A color view of Mercury produced using images from the color basemap imaging campaign during MESSENGER’s primary mission. (Right) What Mercury might look like if its outer layers were peeled back to reveal a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds.… Read More »
Scientists may have solved a long-standing mystery surrounding the ice giant Uranus and its faint radiation belts. The belts’ weakness may be linked to the planet’s peculiarly tilted and unstable magnetic field, which could be causing a “traffic jam” for particles orbiting Earth. The mystery dates back to Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in January… Read More »
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered that one of the closest “hot Jupiter” planets to Earth smells like rotten eggs. The planet already has a bad reputation for deadly glass rain, extreme temperatures, and sideways winds of 5,000 mph (8,046 kph), but this discovery makes this world seem even less friendly.… Read More »
If aliens were to rock their planet with powerful greenhouse gases like we do, we might understand. That’s according to a recent thought experiment in which scientists identified five “artificial” greenhouse gases that could be detected in the atmospheres of certain planets if they were present in sufficient quantities. outer planets Using existing technology, James… Read More »