solar system
New studies find the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the most “pristine” ever discovered.
Scientists find routes using arches of chaos that can lead to much faster space travel.
The solar system has some strange stuff in it. Learning how it ended up that way can tell us where we’re going.
This meteorite is the oldest known volcanic rock in the solar system, dated at 4,565,000,000 years old.
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Cryovolcanoes that eject ice instead of magma have been confirmed to exist on Ceres, which will help studying this formation on other planets and moons throughout the solar system.
A machine learning algorithm has shown it can discover planets from weak signals overlooked in the Kepler spacecraft’s database.
TRAPPIST-1 is 40 light years from Earth. It would take us millions of years to get there.
A very small person asks a very big question: why aren’t the moons of gaseous planets also made of gas?
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