09 June 2017
Key ingredients to life found around Sun-like stars
...have formed in our Solar System, and perhaps elsewhere. “We are particularly excited about the result because these protostars are very similar to the Sun at the beginning of its lifetime. By finding prebiotic molecules in this study, we may now have...
18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
.... Artist’s impression of Planet Nine as an ice giant eclipsing the central Milky Way, with a star-like Sun in the distance. Neptune’s orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun. Credit: ESO/Tomruen/nagualdesign According to Konstantin Batyagin...
22 October 2018
Frequent superflares spell doom for life around red dwarfs
... old stars and middle-age stars like our Sun. "With the Sun, we have a hundred years of good observations," says Parke Loyd, first author on the research paper soon to be published in the Astrophysical Journal. "And in that time, we've seen one...
22 June 2015
First “movie” of dancing Pluto
... a “double planet.” Pluto, of course, had been referred to as the ninth planet from the Sun when it was first discovered. It was demoted to the status of dwarf planet in 2006, after further research of the solar system revealed that there are several...
22 August 2017
Total eclipse wows viewers in the US
... but to scientists who study the sun. When the moon obscures the sun, it reveals the normally hidden, halo-like corona - the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere. The corona is usually hidden by the bright light of the sun's surface, but on such...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
.... Launched in 1995, SOHO has been observing the Sun from an advantage point known as the First Lagrangian Point (L1), where the combined gravity of the Earth and Sun keep SOHO in an orbit locked to the Earth-Sun line. Its LASCO instrument uses a set...
