Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner Solar System; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originated beyond Jupiter’s orbit. A group of ...
The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has unveiled groundbreaking results from NASA’s PUNCH mission, revealing a breathtaking, continuous view of the solar corona and solar wind in unprecedented ...
The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space telescope ever built, has picked up highly unusual readings from an object moving towards the inner solar system. These readings have sparked a ...
After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of super-Earths–planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. If so, those ...
New images from the Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s JUICE spacecraft show interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it moves through the inner solar system, offering new details about its path, activity, and un ...
This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is extremely ...
Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...
And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.
After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...