What scientists found after sifting through dust in the solar system

SPACE 03.13.2019 11:44 AM

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

03.13.2019 10:45 AM

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.

Earth’s Atmosphere Extends Beyond The Moon

03.12.2019 21:41 PM

Tiny wisps of the Earth’s atmosphere stretches into the atmosphere way beyond that Moon’s orbit, new studies suggest.

NASA Sends First All-Female Team on a Spacewalk

03.11.2019 17:33 PM

Two female astronauts with an all-female team will conduct a spacewalk on March 29. March 29, 2019 marks the first ever all-female spacewalk in history.

Solar Panels In Space Is The Next Frontier

03.10.2019 20:19 PM

China plans to put a solar power station in space by 2050, starts to build a test facility to find how much power can be sent back to Earth.

Hubble's dazzling display of 2 colliding galaxies

03.09.2019 08:45 AM

Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies.

NASA Satellite Goes Quiet After Breakthrough

03.08.2019 09:28 AM

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

03.07.2019 07:51 AM

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

03.06.2019 09:16 AM

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.

China Opens Mars Simulation Camp for Tourism and Research

03.06.2019 09:16 AM

China opens a 53,330 square meter Mars simulation camp to simultaneously boost tourism and aid in scientific research.

Overtilting Planets Caused By Powerful Mechanism

03.06.2019 08:19 AM

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.

Hubble helps uncover origin of Neptune's smallest moon Hippocamp

02.22.2019 08:12 AM

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, along with older data from the Voyager 2 probe, have revealed more about the origin of Neptune's smallest moon.

Ingredients for water could be made on surface of moon, a chemical factory

02.21.2019 08:24 AM

When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the Moon's surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1 million miles per hour), they enrich the Moon's surface in ingredients that could make water, NASA scientists have found.

Citizen scientist finds ancient white dwarf star encircled by puzzling rings

02.20.2019 10:01 AM

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

02.05.2019 09:10 AM

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).