November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... (not shown on this image). Understanding Mercury is crucial to developing a better understanding of the early processes in the inner solar system, as this can help scientists understand how Earth was formed, how it evolved, and how it interacts with...
May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... it was: “Dedicated to the scientists of the Earth who seek to understand the nature, origin and history of our solar system.” As research expanded to include other planets, satellites, asteroids and meteorites, the Institute was renamed the Lunar...
01 July 2015
Ceres, Dawn, mysterious bright spots, and exploring the solar system
... bright spots drives home the point that even as we contemplate the possibility of interstellar voyages , our own solar system is still in many ways uncharted territory for humanity. And it’s not as if Ceres hasn’t surprised scientists before. In the...
04 January 2019
Merger with the LMC spells doom for our Solar System
...a chain-reaction of events that could result in our Solar System being kicked out into interstellar space. The Milky Way,...cosmic firework display for our ancestors to witness (if the Solar System was not cast out into space), according to the ...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
... as objects in distant resonances or high inclinations, which are relevant to more detailed hypothesis of the formation of the outer Solar System”, the authors write in their paper. This huge haul means that it is the second largest TNO catalogue...
15 June 2016
Scientists discover a chiral molecule outside of our solar system for the first time
... have opposite chirality. Nonetheless, chiral molecules have intriguingly been found in meteorites on Earth and comets in our Solar System, prompting the suggestion that radiation in the interstellar medium could have caused the selective destruction...
