How a team of engineers a built the most spectacular museum exhibit in the solar system

The California Science Center (CSC) has just unveiled the most impressive museum exhibit I’ve ever seen by a margin of 3 ...
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying water across the solar system

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...

Astronomers find biggest super-puff planets yet, lighter than cotton candy

Comparable to shaving foam, astronomers find the wispiest planets yet. They're in the southern "flying fish" constellation.

Uranus, Neptune may be magma worlds, not ice giants

Uranus and Neptune remain two of the most mysterious objects in the solar system, primarily because they have been visited only by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Their ...

May 2024 superstorm drew most ring current ions from Earth, not solar wind, research reveals

In May 2024, auroras were observed at unusually low latitudes across the globe, lighting up skies that rarely see such ...
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How many Earth-sized planets fit inside the solar system’s giants?

The Solar System is far more diverse in size than it appears from Earth. From tiny rocky worlds to massive gas giants, each ...

NASA's TESS spacecraft finds two 'cotton candy' planets in one system

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS has found what NASA calls the two "puffiest" worlds ever found. While they're as big as our gas giants, they're so light and airy that their ...