Tag: Solar System

This image shows the exoplanet 'HIP 65426 b' in different bands of infrared light.

New York: Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have found the first compelling evidence for a Neptune-sized moon orbiting a giant gas planet 8,000 light-years away. The detection of the candidate exomoon — moons orbiting planets in other star systems — is unusual because of its large size, comparable to […]

Washington: NASA is turning 60 in 2018 and the agency is looking forward to launching a slew of important missions in the coming year, including one to “touch” the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for launch in 2018 to explore the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The probe will use Venus’ gravity during seven flybys […]

New York: Our galaxy, which is home to Earth and its solar system, might not be as “typical” as previously thought, and therefore Milky Way-based models to understand other galaxies of the universe could be misleading, new research suggests. “We use the Milky Way and its surroundings to study absolutely everything,” said Marla Geha of Yale […]

Washington: An international team has discovered a young planetary system that shares remarkable similarities to our own early solar system. The images reveal a ring-like disk of debris surrounding a Sun-like star, in a birth environment similar to our Sun. The disk appears to be sculpted by at least one unseen solar system-like planet, is […]

Washington: NASA has lauded Chandrayaan-2, saying India’s moon mission has “inspired” the US space agency which is keen to jointly explore the solar system with ISRO, a day after the lunar expedition suffered a snag while attempting a historic landing on the uncharted South Pole of the Moon. The Indian Space Research Organistion’s (ISRO) plan […]

Washington: A newly discovered comet could only be the second intersteller object scientists have found after ‘Oumuamua. The new comet – designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) – appears to have originated from outside the solar system, but it has not yet been officially confirmed, NASA said on Thursday. The object – designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) – […]

Washington: Scientists have discovered the oldest solid material ever found on the Earth, in the form of stardust trapped inside a meteorite that crashed into Australia 50 years ago, and predates the formation of our solar system. This stardust provides evidence for a ‘baby boom’ of new stars that formed 7 billion years ago, contrary […]

New Delhi: Our solar system looks like a deflated croissant, NASA has revealed after developing a new prediction of the shape of the magnetic bubble surrounding our solar system. Using data from NASA missions, an updated model of our solar system suggests the shape of the Sun’s bubble of influence, the heliosphere, maybe a deflated […]