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Neptune’s weird dark spot just got weirder

Shannon Stirone, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 24 04:07 AM

Neptune boasts some of the strangest weather in the solar system. The sun’s eighth planet holds the record for the fastest winds observed on any world, with speeds cutting through the atmosphere upward of 1,100 mph, or 1 1/2 times the speed of sound.    Read more »

On Venus, cloudy with a chance of microbial life

Dennis Overbye, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 23 07:02 AM

It has been a while — like, forever — since anyone claimed to have discovered life on Venus. Read more »

Life on Venus? Astronomers see a signal in Its clouds

Shannon Stirone, Kenneth Chang and Dennis Overbye, New York Times
Updated as of Sep 15 11:29 AM

High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life. Read more »

Blue planet: Study proposes new origin theory for Earth's water

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 28 06:26 AM

WASHINGTON - Water covers 70 percent of the Earth's surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a longstanding scientific debate. Read more »

Massive meteor shower 'hit Earth and Moon' 800 million years ago

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 22 03:53 AM

A giant meteor shower bombarded Earth and the Moon 800 million years ago with more than 30 times the force of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs, new research showed Tuesday. Read more »

Solar Orbiter gives scientists unprecedented look at Sun

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 16 11:02 PM

Scientists said Thursday they had obtained the closest ever images taken of the Sun, part of a mission to study solar winds and flares that could have far-reaching impacts back on Earth. Read more »

Surviving core of ill-fated Jupiter-like planet spotted near distant star

Will Dunham, Reuters
Posted at Jul 02 05:19 AM

A rocky planet 39 times as massive as Earth has been spotted orbiting a distant star at breakneck speed, with astronomers concluding it may be the surviving core of a planet once perhaps larger than Jupiter that was stripped of its gaseous atmosphere.   Read more »

Collision of galaxies may have spurred our solar system's formation

Will Dunham, Reuters
Posted at May 27 08:27 AM

A violent event on a colossal scale - the crash of two galaxies - may have paved the way for our solar system's birth. Read more »

OPINION: Science proves God sends a miracle from across the universe

Robert Labayen
Posted at Sep 09 12:41 PM

Scientists’ account of how life began shows how God can make anything possible. Read more »

Scientists conclude cigar-shaped interstellar object not an alien spaceship

Reuters
Posted at Jul 02 05:39 AM

WASHINGTON, United States—After investigating the nature of a mysterious and apparently cigar-shaped object called 'Oumuamua spotted in 2017 speeding through our solar system, astronomers remain uncertain over how to classify it, but are confident it is not an alien spaceship.   Read more »

NASA space probe 'phones home' in landmark mission to solar system's edge

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Posted at Jan 02 07:36 AM

The nuclear-powered space probe has traveled 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) to come within 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of Ultima Thule, an apparently peanut-shaped, 20-mile-long (32-km-long) space rock in the uncharted heart of the Kuiper Belt. The belt is a ring of icy celestial bodies just outside Neptune's orbit. Read more »

Solar system's most distant object is 'Farout' pink dwarf planet

Will Dunham, Reuters
Posted at Dec 19 01:42 AM

WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered the most distant object known in our solar system, so remote and unusual they chose the nickname "Farout" for the slow-moving, icy, pinkish dwarf planet about 120 to 130 times further from the sun than Earth. Read more »

Mercury mission to explore origin of solar system

Laurence Coustal, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 20 05:23 PM

Mercury is 58 million kilometers from the Sun, nearly three times closer than Earth. Read more »