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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
ExtremeTech on MSN1d
How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...
IFLScience on MSN2d
If The Sun's Gravity Is So Strong, How Come All The Planets Are Moving Away From It?
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
A distant planet seems to have a sulfur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
Viral Chatter on MSN16h
Solar System’s True Center Isn’t the Sun, Animation Shows
It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...
Solar Breakthrough: Scientists Redefine the Sun’s Elemental Blueprint
Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...
Rare space event made us think all the wrong things about this solar system planet
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...