Solar system
Total Solar Eclipses Can Trigger Dawn Behavior in Birds, Scientists Say
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted the light-dark cycles of North American birds in anticipation of spring ...
A distant comet is forming new rings while we watch in real time
Illustration of Chiron's rings Dan Durda For the first time, astronomers are observing the formation of a ring system in ...
Greenland is Shrinking and Drifting towards Northwest, Geoscientists Say
This is due to plate tectonics and movements in bedrock caused by the melting of large ice sheets above and ...
Baker’s Yeast Can Survive Mars-like Stress Conditions, New Study Shows
Investigating the possibility of life surviving in extraterrestrial conditions is an important goal of astrobiology. In the new study, scientists ...
Martian ‘Linear Dune Gullies’ are Created by Sliding Blocks of Carbon Dioxide Ice, Researchers Find
Some dune fields on Mars have parallel channels called linear dune gullies. Contrary to their name, these gullies are often ...
Cassini Detects Organic Molecules in Freshly Ejected Ice Grains from Enceladus’ Ocean
Saturn's moon Enceladus is constantly spewing out a plume of icy grains and gases coming from its underground ocean through ...
Lunar Samples Returned by Apollo 17 Contain Anomalous Sulfur, New Analysis Shows
Leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon involve a giant impact between the proto-Earth and a separate impactor called ...
Southward Impact Excavated Magma Ocean at Moon’s Biggest Crater: Study
About 4.3 billion years ago, when our solar system was still in its infancy, a giant asteroid crashed into the ...
Trace Gas Orbiter Captures New Images of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
At its closest approach to Mars on October 3, 2025, 3I/ATLAS was 30 million km from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas ...
Astronomers Detect Water Activity in Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
Using the ultraviolet/optical telescope on board the NASA Observatory Nila Gerels Swift, astronomers discovered Gidroxil gas (it) – a chemical ...
