Finding a planet with a gravitational field that humans can survive and thrive in will be critical if we want to colonize another world. If the gravity is too strong, our blood will be drawn down into our legs, our … Read More
The term “planet” is defined very strictly by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). An astronomical body is officially a planet if it orbits the Sun, has enough mass to be spherical, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, according … Read More
According to astronomers, every year on the surface of the largest Planet in the Solar System fall several asteroids with a diameter of more than 10 meters. On October 15, 2021, at 2:24pm GMT, Japanese astronomers recorded a 2-second light … Read More
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission captured its first images of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby. The closest approach occurred on October 1, 2021, at 23:34 UTC, at an altitude of 199 km … Read More
PDS 70 is a 370-light-year-distance star that is almost 6 million years old and has a mass roughly three-quarters that of the Sun. Two years ago astronomers spotted what they thought might be a moon-forming disk around PDS 70b, its … Read More
Each Planet from the Solar System rotates at a specific speed and this animation shows how different these rotations are. It is the work of Dr. James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japan Space Agency who once worked for … Read More