SPACE

What scientists found after sifting through dust in the solar system

SPACE Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it's often in rings. Several dust rings circle the Sun. The rings trace the orbits of planets, whose gravity tugs dust into place around the Sun, as it drifts by on its way to the center of the solar system.

Enormous Solar Storm Threatens The Earth

If that solar storm happened today, it could bring about devastating effects on humankind. An enormous solar storm has once devastated the Earth and could be brewing up just around the corner.

NASA Satellite Goes Quiet After Breakthrough

After their launch, what have these satellites become? The first ever pair of tiny satellites sent to go interplanetary have fallen silent after their launch.

NASA All-Female Spacewalk on Women’s Month

The next NASA expedition involves an all women crew. NASA has released a statement that the first all-women expedition in space is set to leave at the end of this month.

China Space Station Launch Surprises The World

Is it out to challenge the space? China recently launched its first mission to build its own orbital space station. According to The South China Morning Post, a leading HongKong newspaper, China is currently training its astronauts and implementing the first stages of launching site.

Overtilting Planets Caused By Powerful Mechanism

A strong and strange mechanism is causing the planets to tilt. For more than a decade, astronomers have tried to find an explanation for planets in the solar system that seem to have an odd configuration.

Citizen scientist finds ancient white dwarf star encircled by puzzling rings

A volunteer working with the NASA-led Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has found the oldest and coldest known white dwarf -- an Earth-sized remnant of a Sun-like star that has died -- ringed by dust and debris. Astronomers suspect this could be the first known white dwarf with multiple dust rings.

The Milky Way in a twist

Our Milky Way galaxy's disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly 'warped' and twisted far away from the Milky Way's center, according to astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).

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