Ripples on Mars, rings around Quaoar and a vortex circling the Sun: it’s time for another roundup of news from around the Solar System! On February 2, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a large solar prominence erupting in Sun’s far north, but instead of simply arcing back to the surfaceread more
The spin of the Earth’s core appears to have reversed direction; but don’t be alarmed, it’s still spinning in the right direction, it only appears to be running in reverse from our vantage point here on the surface of the planet. A study of deep-penetrating seismic data collected between 1964read more
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons spacecraft have unveiled the presence of a mysterious glow that permeates the solar system. This unexplained glow was discovered by the SKYSURF survey, an effort to catalogue the various sources of light within the solar system that can interfere withread more
The data being gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is upending the scientific community’s theories of galactic formation and evolution, with the incoming images showing that both the number of galaxies and their relative complexity—amongst other conundrums—were much greater in the early universe than originally anticipated. “We hadread more