Tag: solar system

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past the tumbling asteroid Donaldjohanson, uncovering evidence of ancient water on its surface.

A meteorite found in the Sahara provides the first solid proof of a vanished protoplanet from the early Solar System, comparable in size to the Moon.

Research using NASA’s James Webb Telescope indicates Neptune’s moon Nereid likely formed with the planet, not captured from the Kuiper Belt.

A 500-kilometer Kuiper Belt object has been found with a thin atmosphere, challenging current understanding of such distant solar system bodies.

Unique X-ray data from the eROSITA telescope reveals the Solar System’s dynamic ‘breathing,’ offering fresh insights into solar wind behavior.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has detected over 11,000 previously unknown asteroids, enhancing the catalog of small solar system bodies.

Recent observations have revealed 15 previously unknown moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, expanding the known satellite count in our Solar System.

NASA’s DART mission marked humanity’s first deliberate change to a celestial body’s orbit by colliding with asteroid Dimorph.

Researchers reveal why roughly one in ten Kuiper Belt objects exhibit a distinctive snowman shape, following NASA’s 2019 New Horizons discovery.

The James Webb Space Telescope has created the first three-dimensional map of auroras on Uranus, revealing activity even near its equator.

NASA’s Juno mission provides updated, slightly smaller measurements of Jupiter, enhancing models of its core and atmosphere.

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