Does a comet’s period change because it loses mass every time it nears the Sun?
Several bright jets spew from the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as ices on the nucleus turn to gas. This image ...
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BepiColombo nabs its best views yet of Mercury
Back to Article List The European-Japanese spacecraft made its closest flyby of Mercury to date, buzzing the planet’s north pole ...
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Where is the solar system heading?
Back to Article List The Sun, the planets, and all the other flotsam and jetsam that constitute the solar system ...
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The middle-aged Moon had a magnetic field
Back to Article List New findings suggest the Moon held on to its magnetic field for most of its life ...
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‘Dark comets’ could reveal how Earth got its oceans
This artist's impression shows a so-called dark comet in our solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The water that makes up the ...
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Mars Express captures the beauty of a martian frostscape
Back to Article List The European orbiter captured a frozen landscape on the Red Planet. The intricate patterns and swirls ...
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How do spacecraft avoid collisions in the asteroid belt?
Back to Article List From the December 2024 issue The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ...
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Smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected found in JWST data
Back to Article List MIT researchers have identified 138 near-Earth objects using a common astrophotography technique. NASA’s James Webb Space ...
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A look back at NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade
WISE, NEOWISE’s predecessor mission, imaged the entire sky in the mid-infrared range. Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/UCLA The NASA project NEOWISE, which has ...
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Does dark matter affect our solar system?
Back to Article List From the December 2024 issue Dark matter does pervade the solar system like an invisible fog. ...
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