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NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations known as “megaripples” during its latest exploration stop on the Red Planet. The photo, taken on Aug. 13, reveals a field of these ridges at a site called Kerrlaguna, where Perseverance is investigating how Martian winds continue to shape the landscape. According to a recent NASA …

Nearly a decade after its release, No Man’s Sky continues to get updates from developer Hello Games. Now, Voyagers, one of the latest updates for No Man’s Sky, has inspired something special for the company’s next game, Light No Fire. According to Hello Games co-founder Sean Murray, innovations in No Man’s Sky will lead to a large ocean to explore …

Topline Six planets will be visible in the morning sky before sunrise on Thursday, Aug. 28, but for probably the last time until 2028. Venus shines brightest in the east, flanked by Jupiter, with and Saturn in the south. Mercury clings low to the horizon, offering a final glimpse before it disappears into sunlight next week. Uranus and Neptune are …

IN A NUTSHELL 🔭 Astronomers have identified a potential candidate for the elusive Planet Nine beyond Neptune. 🛰️ The discovery was made using archival data from the IRAS and AKARI satellites. ❓ There is significant skepticism due to the candidate’s orbit not aligning with Planet Nine predictions. 🔍 The Vera C. Rubin Observatory could provide definitive evidence to confirm or …

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long been cast as a frozen relic of the early solar system — quiet, airless, and lifeless. But new research suggests that billions of years ago, this dwarf planet may have harbored the right ingredients to support simple microbial life. That’s according to a new study using …

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A nearby star has a new heavyweight companion, and it swings around on a path that is anything but neat. The world, labeled GJ 2126 b, traces a stretched orbit that pushes close to its star, then races far away again. In new observations, researchers identified a giant world 124 light years away that circles its star every 272.7 days …

For centuries, humans have gazed into the night sky, wondering what lies beyond the planets we know. Each new discovery in the Solar System reshapes our sense of place in the cosmos. Now, astronomers are once again pointing to the possibility of an unseen world – one that may be orbiting far beyond Neptune. This hypothetical body has been given …

Look up at the next full Moon and consider how far away it is. It looks pretty big and nearby, doesn’t it? Now consider this: you could fit every planet in the Solar System between Earth and the Moon. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC) That even includes Jupiter and Saturn. The Moon is so far from Earth that …

Scientists have discovered possible hints of an undiscovered world in the solar system—nicknamed “Planet Y”—orbiting about 100 to 200 times farther from the Sun than Earth, according to a new study.   The newly proposed planet, assuming it exists, is predicted to be somewhere between Mercury and Earth in scale, which would likely make it detectable within the next few years. …