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Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planet
Uranus is more normal than we had thought NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute Uranus’s strange magnetic field may be…
Distant dwarf planet Makemake might have a surprising ice volcano
A small world in the outer solar system appears to have volcanic activity possibly spurred by liquid water…
A supernova may have cleaned up our solar system
When a star goes supernova in a giant explosion, it can clear away matter in nearby star systems…
NASA set to launch Europa Clipper probe to search for signs of habitability
Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an interplanetary mission…
Huge asteroid impact may have knocked over Jupiter’s largest moon
The solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede, alongside Jupiter in a picture taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft NASA/JPL/University of…
Could we take the entire solar system on a voyage through space?
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos –…
What would happen if Earth was the centre of the solar system?
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos –…
Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is hurtling out of the solar system at an incredible speed. It is currently…
Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings
Triton, left, and Pluto (not shown to scale) may be long-lost siblings JPL/NASA//Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest…
Tiny black holes hiding in the sun could trace out stunning patterns
Primordial black holes could take on intricate orbits inside the sun and similar stars Vitorio A. De Lorenci…