Whatever hypothesis may ultimately be found to account for the present solar system, the Theory of Tidal Friction ... of the viscosity with the time. Scientific Papers, vol. ii.

The film takes us on a journey through humanity’s evolving view of our home planet—from ancient beliefs that the Earth was flat and supported by gigantic elephants and turtles, to the scientific ...

Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is a beloved film. For the past decade, audiences have theorized over the endless ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

That October, for the very first time, an interstellar object was caught diving into and then scarpering away from our solar system ... was the subject of a scientific and media frenzy at the ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ... an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and coauthor of the paper, said in a statement ...

The team's research was published on Monday (March 17) in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science ... are among the oldest materials in our solar system, originating from planets, asteroids ...

In 2020, researchers at France’s University of Lorraine announced evidence seen in a meteorite known as Sahara 97096 that supported an increasingly popular theory: Earth’s original water ...

Among the various places humans have aspired to visit in the solar system, the sun remains the ... allowing the probe’s scientific instruments to operate without special provisions to maintain ...

Unlike a total solar eclipse, part of the sun is still visible during a partial solar eclipse, so there is no darkening of the sky or visible solar corona. This new moon of March 2025 will create ...