Uranus, showing all of its rings and nine of the planet’s 27 moons NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI This amazing shot of Uranus, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has given us our most complete view yet of the planet, with its rings and turbulent atmosphere revealed in glorious […]
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Uranus’s moon Miranda NASA/JPL/USGS The moons of Uranus may have short-lived atmospheres every time the seasons change. The seasons there are so intense that these tenuous atmospheres, called exospheres, could exist briefly twice every Uranian year before freezing and falling back down to the surface. Uranus’s poles are extremely tilted […]
The icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn may hold the key to the survival of alien life, according to scientists at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Scientists have released a research paper suggesting that the so-called “strike-slip faults” on the moons of Ganymede (which rotates around Jupiter) and Titan […]
Try to imagine Saturn without its signature rings. Now picture two large icy moons shifting closer together little by little until — boom. Chaos. What was solid is now fluid. Diamantine shards scatter into the darkness. Many icy fragments tumble close to Saturn, remain there and dance around the gas […]
Try to imagine Saturn without its signature rings. Now picture two large icy moons shifting closer together little by little until — boom. Chaos. What was solid is now fluid. Diamantine shards scatter into the darkness. Many icy fragments tumble close to Saturn, remain there and dance around the gas […]
Scientists used supercomputer simulations to understand the origin of the rings A collision between two icy moons could have led to their formation By Xantha Leatham Deputy Science Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 00:01 BST, 27 September 2023 | Updated: 00:25 BST, 27 September 2023 Since it was first […]
August ‘mixes up love lives’ of two star signs as new moons bring ‘double opportunities’ (Image: GETTY) Inbaal summarised the next month’s events as: “Once in every… blue moon, which is what we call the second full moon in a month. This gives us double the opportunity to make new-moon […]
A new discovery has provided a huge insight into whether or not there could be extra terrestrial life in our solar system. Scientists have discovered phosphates on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. It is the first time phosphorus has been discovered in an ocean outside of the Earth. It is considered a big […]