Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!
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Do you think you know the Solar System? Here’s a fact about each planet that might surprise you when you see it!
If there are human-sized creatures walking around on other planets, would we be able to view them directly?
There’s a limit to how large planets can be, and it’s only about double the radius of Jupiter. At least, so far.
Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”
The odds are slim, but the consequences would be literally world-ending. There really is a chance of a black hole devouring the Earth.
The answer may lie in the particular way sand forms on Titan.
It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.
The universe’s largest seismometer reveals clues about the Gas Giant’s interior.
The stars, planets, and many moons are extremely round. Why don’t they take other shapes?
The story of how Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were made isn’t a universal one. Some gas giants were built different.
No planet enters retrograde more frequently than Mercury, which does so 3-4 times each year. Here’s the scientific explanation for why.
Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the USA in the space race. Then one critical event changed everything.
Barnard’s star, the closest singlet star system to ours, has long been a target for planet-hunters. We’ve finally confirmed it: they exist!
The original principle of relativity, proposed by Galileo way back in the early 1600s, remains true in its unchanged form even today.
65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it probably caused the impact itself.
As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing Earth to spiral outward in its orbit. Will that cool the Earth down, or will other effects win out?
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it’s a losing strategy for elimination.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
Scientists do not know what is causing the overabundance of the gas.
Our understanding always will remain incomplete.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
The Universe begins with negligible amounts of angular momentum, which is always conserved. So why do planets, stars, and galaxies all spin?
In all the known Universe, Earth is the only planet known to have native life. What should guide us in expanding humanity beyond our world?
How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!
Due to chaos, it was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.