Breakthrough in Artificial Photosynthesis Lets Scientists Store The Sun’s Energy as Fuel Plants have a seemingly effortless skill – turning sunlight into energy – and scientists have been working to artificially emulate this photosynthesis process. The ultimate benefits for […]
100 cool worlds found near the Sun How complete is our census of the Sun’s closest neighbors? Astronomers and a team of data-sleuthing volunteers participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project, have discovered […]
Physicists Have Finally Detected ‘Missing’ Neutrinos Generated Deep Within Our Sun Every second, trillions upon trillions of incredibly low-mass subatomic particles called neutrinos shoot out from the Sun and slide undetected through your body. These neutrinos are […]
How four newborn exoplanets get cooked by their sun Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) examined the fate of the young star V1298 Tau and its four orbiting exoplanets. The results show […]
Stunning Close-Ups of Asteroid Ryugu Reveal It May Have Sailed Too Close to The Sun Just over a year ago, at the end of February 2019, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) pulled off an […]
Study shows our sun is less active than similar stars By cosmic standards the sun is extraordinarily monotonous. This is the result of a study presented by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar […]