Tag: solar

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on fossil leaves from South America that...
Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far below...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within...

Two populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell researchers where the Earth got its oceans

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still do not...

NASA solar probe to make its closest ever pass of sun

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe is poised to make its closest-ever approach of the sun on Christmas Eve, a record-setting 3.8 million miles (6.2...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe aims to fly closer to the sun like never before

A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get...

First detection of frost on the solar system’s tallest volcanoes on Mars

For the first time, water frost has been detected on the colossal volcanoes on Mars, which are the largest mountains in the solar system....

The sun is reaching the peak of its activity—here’s how that could cause more auroras and solar storms

Many more people around the world than normal were recently able to see the northern and southern lights overhead with the naked eye. This...

What do scientists hope to learn from total solar eclipse in US?

When a rare total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on Monday, scientists will be able to gather invaluable data on everything from the...

‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse will cut across the Americas, stretching from Oregon to Brazil

A rare "ring of fire" eclipse of the sun cuts across the Americas on Saturday, stretching from Oregon to Brazil, and huge crowds were...

Solar sails could reach Mars in just 26 days

A recent study submitted to Acta Astronautica and currently available on the arXiv preprint server explores the potential for using aerographite solar sails for...

4.6-billion-year-old meteorite increases our understanding of the early solar system

An analysis of the approximately 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite Erg Chech 002, discovered in 2020 in the Erg Chech region of the Sahara Desert in Algeria,...

New Earth-sized exoplanet detected in the solar neighborhood

Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet located about 70 light years away from...

How was the solar system formed? The Ryugu asteroid is helping us learn

Mineral samples collected from the Ryugu asteroid by the Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft are helping UCLA space scientists and colleagues better understand the chemical composition...

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