The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. Researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into energy efficiently, ...

THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been a source of speculation for over a hundred years; but, in spite of the attention that has been devoted to it, no really ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan, told Live Science in an email. Astronomers have found dozens of new planetary moons ...

Our solar system, in contrast ... “Breaking a classification scheme is sometimes what pushes science forward,” says Seligman. Much effort has been put into classifying the nearly 6,000 ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue ... The findings were published March 6 in The Planetary Science Journal. Interstellar objects are ...

but it is an opportunity to take a break from worldly matters and witness our place in the solar system. During the eclipse, the moon will appear to take a bite out of the sun, but how much varies ...