Discover Magazine on MSN2d
How Can Jupiter Have No Surface? A Look at the Planet That Could Swallow 1,000 Earths
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars – are all made of solid, rocky material, Jupiter is a gas giant with a composition similar t ...
A ‘Future Earth’ Has Been Found Around A Dying Star — What To Know
Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
Newsweek on MSN3d
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth Today
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
Meteorite 200X Size of Dinosaur Killer Hit Earth—Here's What Happened Next
Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.
Inverse1d
The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
Asteroid Apophis Will Endure Quakes and Surface Shifts During 2029 Earth Flyby
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
Breakthrough Technique Could Reveal Alien Communications Between Planets
A new study by Penn State and the SETI Institute explored alien signal detection in the TRAPPIST-1 system using innovative ...
Forbes1y
A Second Earth-Like Planet May Exist In The Solar System, Say Scientists
Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant ... [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an ...
ExtremeTech on MSN26d
A Volcanic Moon Might Orbit a Planet 635 Light-Years Away: NASA
Artist's illustration of a volcanic exomoon ... About 635 light-years from Earth is WASP-49 b, a gas giant exoplanet with ...
Inverse10d
This Potentially Rogue Planet Might Have Rings That Rotate Backwards — And That’s Not the Weird Part
The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...
Phys.org on MSN12d
Could Life at TRAPPIST-1 Survive the Star’s Superflares
Artist's Illustration of a Young Red Dwarf Stripping Away a Planet's Atmosphere. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI).
ZME Science on MSN4d
Could Spraying Diamonds into the Sky Be the Key to Cooling the Planet?
Nothing is more precious than our planet, and we must cool it fast. Scientists say this can be done by decorating the sky with diamonds.