Jupiter is so big, it doesn't actually orbit the sun. Here's how. Jupiter, our solar system’s fifth planet from the sun, the massive gas giant that protects Earth and the inner planets from potential catastrophic comet and asteroid strikes,…
Astronomers have discovered 20 new moons around Saturn, bringing the total to 82. This outnumbers Jupiter, which previously held the record with 79 moons. One of the new moons has the most distant known orbit around Saturn, and they are all about the …
The Milky Way is blowing a star-forming bubble, and we’re in the middle of it. Star formation in the 500 light-years around Earth is being driven by a cosmic bubble known as the Local bubble, as seen in this artist's concept. Think “bubbles,”…
If you had to identify Saturn out of a crowd, you'd most likely know it by its famous rings. They are our solar system's largest and brightest rings. Extending over 280,000 kilometres from the planet and wide enough to fit six Earths in a …
Since Jupiter won't come this near to the Sun again for 107 years, this is a cosmic event that cannot be missed. Jupiter is now at its closest point to the Sun in 59 years. There comes a time when Jupiter travels to the side of the Sun that i…
Venera was a series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s to study Venus’ environment. It was also the program aimed at returning the first images of the surface of another planet. Over the course of the program, …
Nothing is standing or stationary. As you are reading this, the Earth spins around its own axis; it revolves around the sun, the sun is moving through space at a stunning 792,000 km/h around the gigantic center, and our universe is moving at a min…
A rocket technology that could drastically cut the amount of time it takes people to reach Mars is now being tested, which would significantly lower the chance of mechanical problems and other lethal space threats for future astronauts traveling to Ma…
Following its 2015 flyby of Pluto, the New Horizon is still rewriting almost all of what is known about the dwarf planet. Pluto’s icy volcanic region can be seen in this image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. The blue markings show how past vo…
This week, a huge sunspot sent a huge solar flare straight toward Earth. It hit our planet's magnetic field and messed things up. Multiple reports and space weather experts said that the solar flare was 10 million degrees Celsius (18 million …
VENUS has been chosen as the destination for two new NASA missions to investigate the planet's atmosphere and geological features, following the discovery of " enough water to support plentiful life " by NASA. The space agency has a…
How can the rotational speed of a whole planet alter in 20 years? That kind of shift takes hundreds of millions of years to occur. The Cassini Mission's discovery of electromagnetic signals that showed that Saturn rotates differently in its …
The celestial body most similar to Earth in the solar system was visited by the Huygens probe after a journey of more than 7 years. What did they find and what else is there to discover there? According to astronomers, Titan has similar conditions …
VENUS has been chosen as the destination for two new NASA missions to investigate the planet's atmosphere and geological features, following the discovery of " enough water to support plentiful life " by NASA. The space agency has a…
A team of astronomers in Hungary has confirmed that earth has not one but three moons . As per the Hungarian researchers, these moons are made up entirely of dust, and these mysterious clouds are orbiting the planet 250,000 miles away, roughly the …
