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A Look at the Sun's Dusty Environment

Dec. 10, 2020 — Scientists say that how dust moves and transforms around the sun may give them new insights to how Earth and its neighboring planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ...

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New Superhighway System Discovered in the Solar System

Dec. 9, 2020 — Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. Such routes can drive comets and asteroids ...

Space Weather Discovery Puts 'Habitable Planets' at Risk

Dec. 9, 2020 — Stellar flares with a chance of radio bursts: that's the weather from Proxima Centauri. New research suggests exoplanets around red dwarf M-type stars will likely be exposed to coronal mass ...

Image-Based Navigation Could Help Spacecraft Safely Land on the Moon

Dec. 7, 2020 — Engineers have demonstrated how a series of lunar images can be used to infer the direction that a spacecraft is moving. This technique, sometimes called visual odometry, allows navigation ...

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Aluminium Alloy Research Could Benefit Manned Space Missions

Dec. 7, 2020 — Manned space missions in spacecraft made of aluminium that is light yet resistant to radiation could be a step ...

Supercomputer Simulations Could Unlock Mystery of Moon's Formation

Dec. 4, 2020 — Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ...

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Researchers Uncover Key Clues About the Solar System's History

Dec. 4, 2020 — Researchers have used magnetism to determine, for the first time, when asteroids that are rich in water and amino acids first arrived in the inner ...

Gaia Space Telescope Measured the Acceleration of the Solar System

Dec. 3, 2020 — The Gaia space telescope has measured the acceleration of the Solar System when it orbits the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Solar System motion relative to the stars agrees with the results by ...

Leaving So Soon? Unusual Planetary Nebula Fades Mere Decades After It Arrived

Dec. 3, 2020 — The tiny Stingray Nebula unexpectedly appeared in the 1980s is by far the youngest planetary nebula in our sky. But a team of astronomers recently ...

Scientists Peer Into the 3D Structure of the Milky Way

Dec. 3, 2020 — Scientists have helped produce a brand-new, three-dimensional survey of our galaxy, allowing them to peer into the inner structure and observe its star-forming processes in unprecedented ...

Astronomers to Release Most Accurate Data Ever for Nearly Two Billion Stars

Dec. 3, 2020 — On 3 December 2020 an international team of astronomers will announce the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars in a huge swathe of our Milky Way galaxy. The measurements of stellar position and ...

Voyager Spacecraft Detect New Type of Solar Electron Burst

Dec. 3, 2020 — The Voyager spacecraft continue to make discoveries even as they travel through interstellar space. In a new study, physicists report on the Voyagers' detection of cosmic ray electrons associated ...

Best Region for Life on Mars Was Far Below Surface

Dec. 2, 2020 — The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a new study ...

Research Suggests Our Galaxy's Brightest Gamma-Ray Binary System May Be Powered by a Magnetar Star

Dec. 2, 2020 — A research team has shed new night on the massive star and its neutron star companion, which are thought to be at the core of the gamma-ray binary ...