(Natural News) NASA recently released an audio clip of “wild” sounds taken from a flyby of Jupiter’s biggest moon in fascinating footage that has the astronomy community buzzing. The 50-second audio clip was taken on Juno’s flyby of Ganymede on June 7 during the spacecraft’s closest approach yet to Jupiter’s moon. This summer, NASA announced […]

(Natural News) The extreme temperatures on planet Venus are not suitable for supporting life. But a new study found that sunlight on Venus’s clouds could enable microorganisms to thrive by means of photosynthesis. Researchers at California State Polytechnic University Pomona report this in a Sept. 27 study published in Astrobiology. They note that photosynthesis occurs all day on Venus […]

(Natural News) Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) suggest that Jupiter’s Europa may have pockets of water within its crust that may be able to support alien life. Europa, the fourth largest of Jupiter’s moons, has high odds of being habitable. Past studies suggest that an ocean of liquid water lurks beneath Europa’s 15-mile-thick frozen crust. This extraterrestrial ocean […]

(Natural News) A study led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) suggests that Mars may be responsible for the zodiacal light, a faint cone of light commonly seen extending from the horizon before dawn and at dusk. The zodiacal light is the sunlight reflected toward Earth by a cloud of dust particles orbiting the sun. Scientists previously thought […]

(Natural News) A planet orbiting a pair of stars more than 300 light-years away may offer clues to a mystery object called “Planet Nine” that is thought to reside in the outskirts of the solar system. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile performed the first complete orbital measurements on a Jupiter-like exoplanet whose orbit […]

(Natural News) A recent study published in the journal Icarus suggests that the solar system likely had an extra planet located between Saturn and Uranus. Researchers from the U.S. and France ran simulations of the solar system’s evolution and found that a giant icy planet might have influenced Neptune and Uranus’s current positions. However, the planet got […]

(Natural News) A study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters discovered a pathway that explains how small celestial bodies called centaurs arrive from the outer solar system into Earth’s neighborhood. The researchers said that a gateway region near Jupiter is causing centaurs to change their orbits. Once they pass through this region, most centaurs eventually join a group called the Jupiter-family comets – […]

(Natural News) A recent study published in the Astronomical Journal found that as much as seven habitable planets could be orbiting a star, advancing the search for extraterrestrial life forms. The researchers noted that the absence of a gas giant such as Jupiter can mean more planets could have the favorable conditions to facilitate life. This […]

(Natural News) One of the more interesting things about the planet Jupiter is that it also has an aurora, just like the ones here on Earth. For a long time, scientists have wondered about the origin of Jupiter’s aurora, which is said to be the brightest in the solar system. Now, a recent study has found just […]

(Natural News) When Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins returned to Earth after their manned mission to the moon, the triumphant astronauts were put into a 21-day period of isolation. Per NASA safety protocols, this was to make sure that the Earth’s first visitors to the moon wouldn’t spread any potentially hazardous lunar microbes. […]