A strange asteroid-comet could be key to understanding the birth of the solar system
A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...
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Asteroid-comet chimera Chiron has an unusual ice mix, James Webb Space Telescope finds
An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the ...
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How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...
This ‘land aircraft carrier’ is like a Cybertruck that gives birth to a drone
A fully autonomous passenger aircraft emerges from the back of the Land Aircraft Carrier, an ambitious new vehicle from ...
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This Strange Comet-Asteroid Hybrid Is Like Nothing Else in The Solar System
In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...
Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
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First results from 2021 rocket launch shed light on aurora's birth
Earth's magnetosphere and elsewhere in the solar system. Plasmas -- a form of matter composed largely of charged particles -- also can be created in laboratories and experiments such as KiNET-X.
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For Possibly The First Time Ever, A Meteorite Was Captured Hitting The Ground On Video And Audio
F or possibly the first time ever, a meteorite has been captured on video and audio as it struck the Earth, just outside one man's home.