Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?
18 July 2023
What would happen if we pushed a sun-sized ball of water into our star? The Dead Planets Society podcast dives into the possibilities
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Weird dust ring orbits the sun alongside Mercury and we don't know why
8 February 2023
Very little debris should be able to survive for long in the area near Mercury, but the innermost planet seems to orbit the sun alongside a ring of dust that researchers can’t explain
Hayabusa 2 has brought back gases from an asteroid for the first time
20 October 2022
Gases brought back from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft are revealing the asteroid’s history and may help us reconstruct the evolution of the solar system
Astronomers found a weird asteroid closer to the sun than any other
5 October 2022
Scientists have found three strange asteroids that orbit relatively close to the sun – one is the closest to the sun we have ever found, and another may someday hit Earth
Mars may have been habitable millions of years later than we thought
2 February 2022
Analysis of minerals in a Martian meteorite suggest that the planet may have begun to be hospitable for life 30 million years later than previously thought
Sample of asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth is a strange dark colour
20 December 2021
Last year, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and now the first analysis of the rock shows it has a primitive composition and a curiously dark colour
Astronomers have found a second trojan asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit
22 November 2021
An Earth trojan is an asteroid that shares our planet’s orbit around the sun, moving just ahead of or behind our planet – and astronomers have now discovered that we have two
Marsquakes happen more often during the planet’s northern summer
9 November 2021
The NASA Insight lander has measured the frequency of shallow marsquakes and found they are more common when it is summer in Mars’s northern hemisphere
Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star system
8 November 2021
Interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua might pass through our solar system in such high numbers that one could have acted as a seed around which Earth grew
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids
7 October 2021
The New Horizons spacecraft has found two pairs of unusually close asteroids in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper belt
