... pockets of carbon dioxide-rich liquid water, a finding which provides direct evidence of the dynamic evolution of the solar system. On this planet at least, water is key to life. Without it, the chemistry of life would simply be non-existent as this...
... insight into humanity's evolution, NASA hopes Lucy the space probe will revolutionise our understanding of the Solar System by studying “fossils” of planetary formation; Trojans. Clustered in two loose groups in an orbit around Jupiter – one group...
...is what a team led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen have now found. Called KOI-456.0, the...just over 3000 light years from the solar system, Kepler-160 has a radius of 1.1 solar radii, and a surface temperature of 5200...
..., so to account for this disparity, it has been suggested that icy comets or asteroids which originated in the outer Solar System delivered the vast amounts of water engulfing our planet during a period of bombardment early in Earth’s history. The...
... 1 and 2 spacecrafts have proved to be one of the most remarkable missions for studying the outlying regions of the Solar System and the distant heliosphere. After 39 years of operation, these exceptional space probes are now the longest...
... FarFarOut – a newly discovered extreme Trans-Neptunian Object (eTNO) that is 140 AU away. The outer realm of the Solar System is a vast, chaotic and relatively little-known about domain, that is proving to be just as interesting as the space closer...