20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
...Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia, the solar particles will help deflect another type of hazardous particle... flight to Mars and back is during the decaying phase of solar activity. For a mission to last four years, average shielding ...
13 January 2020
New study shows a split Solar System that kickstarted growth of Jupiter
... to these differences in isotopic composition as the NC–CC dichotomy, a phenomena which most likely reflects the separation of the early Solar System into an inner and outer disk separated by Jupiter, which acted as a barrier between the two regions...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
... space, or the irradiation of dust and gas within the Solar System. Aiming to narrow down the answer, researchers in the... is consistent with what happened during the formation of the Solar System five billion years ago,” Forbes said. “Although this...
27 June 2016
Protoplanetary disc shares similarities with our own Solar System say researchers
... team state that ‘whatever the formation mechanism, the detection of crystalline water ice is consistent with observations on solar system satellites, where most are detected to have crystalline ice at least at the surface.’ More information on this...
01 November 2017
Voyager 1 spies unexpected light at the outer edges of the Solar System
... analysis shows that the theoretical boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the local interstellar medium has a...The heliopause is the boundary of the heliosphere that separates the solar wind plasma (a soup of ionised gas made up of of...
27 February 2019
FarFarOut beats FarOut as most distant Solar System body ever seen
...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... Planet Nine lay hidden in the far reaches of the Solar System and was causing a group of outliers to bunch-up...
