On its 9-year-old journey through our Solar System, the fastest probe, New Horizons, can encounter many dangers that can compromise the entire mission. In this video, Alan Stern, a New Horizons Principal Investigator, speaks...
According to scientists, nine space bodies in our Solar System may contain underground water. Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons, Ceres and Pluto, Neptune’s Tritone are just some of them that can have subsurface oceans.
The first exploration of the “Third Zone” of our Solar System is about to happen. Dr. Alan Stern speaks about the importance of this huge step from known Solar System into a completely unknown...
Julia from DNews reviews previous scientific explorations in our Solar System in search for water and extraterrestrial life. She points out at the new discoveries on three Jupiter’s moons – Ganymede, Enceladus, and Europe,...
Scientists have long assumed that the largest Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, has a liquid water beneath its surface. The new evidence from the Hubble Space Telescope confirmed that Ganymede has a vast ocean, which is...
The latest image taken on Ceres shows two bright spots that scientists still have not an answer. They theorize that the lights from these spots originate from the bottom of their craters, full of...
In this video, scientists explain what has happened to Jupiter, when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit it in July 1994. According to them, Jupiter as the largest and the most massive planet in our...
The following video explains the one of the catastrophes that affects our Solar System in its early days, the late heavy bombardment. This event emerged as a consequence of the orbital dance of Saturn...
Asteroid Belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, represents the area of our Solar System we know very little about. Destination of NASA’a Dawn mission is Vesta and Ceres, where Vesta, the brightest asteroid, has...
Scientists have discovered strong volcanic activity on Mars that hit the Red Planet at least 5 times repeatedly. These events change Martian surface forever, giving it such recognizable look full of craters and the...
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft prepares orbiting Ceres on March 6, in its pursuit for water. Scientists assume that 30% of the mass of Ceres consists of water.
Astronomers from the University of Rochester, New York, found out an alien star, known as Scholz’s star, passed through the Oort Cloud 70.000 years ago. It came 5 times closer than Proxima Centauri, the...
In the early beginnings of our Solar System, fluctuations of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s orbits initiate a cosmic chain reaction. Two planets orbited around the Sun with the “two-to-one resonance”, which means that Jupiter orbited...
Hubble Space Telescope captured the images of the rare transit of Jupiter’s moons: Io, Callisto, and Europa while passing across Jupiter. The next triple-transit, we can see in December, 2032.
Recently, astronomers found out an ancient solar system, which is 117 light years away from our Earth and has 5 Earth-sized planets. They assumed that its origins date from the early period of the...
After 7 years of travel, Dawn, NASA’s robot, will reach Ceres in March this year. Ceres is the biggest object in the Asteroid Belt. Scientists know very little about Ceres and have not categorized...
This video shows us the most important facts about our Solar System and guides us from Mercury to Neptune, uncovering its magnificent beauty.
According to new research, there are at least two large planets in our Solar System beyond Neptune’s orbit. Two scientists from the United States set up a new hypothesis that the unexpected orbits of...
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