From a Small Corpse to the History of the Solar System: 'Inherit the Stars'

I am rereading J.P. Hogan's science fiction novel 'Inherit the Stars'. Having talked about science fiction with a friend from ...
C&EN

A chemical tour of the solar system highlights Earth's uniqueness

Humans love an origin story. And in space science, there is no greater question than why Earth is the vibrant, living planet we see today. As humans return to the heavens, understanding our planetary ...
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A Giant ‘Planet Factory’ Beyond Jupiter May Have Churned out the Building Blocks of the Solar System

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby planets over millions of years. In a recent study published in The ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Rare Comet Made History as the Third Known Interstellar Object to Fly Through Our Solar System. Studies Are Now Revealing the Mysterious Conditions in Which It Formed

In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a peripheral region of a relatively calm planetary system Interstellar ...
Physics World

Cosmic chronicles: the impact of celestial instabilities on human history

After all, Degroot can write beautifully. Venus is “not only hotter than an oven, but hot enough to melt an oven”, while a ...
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Two rings around a white dwarf offer a glimpse of our Solar System’s possible future

Astronomers found two chemically distinct gas rings around a white dwarf. Hidden planetary bodies may sustain them, offering clues to our Solar System’s future.

How the quantum vacuum perturbs atoms, could shrink black holes and may have helped form galaxies

The word "vacuum" may conjure the image of empty space. Maybe you think of a region far outside the solar system without ...
Smithsonian Magazine

After an Eight-Year Journey, Two Spacecraft Have Begun Their Arrival to Mercury, the Inner Solar System’s Most Mysterious Planet

An artistic rendering of the ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter in the foreground and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter in the background near Mercury. Spacecraft: ESA / ATG medialab; Mercury: NASA / ...