Jupiter's Galilean moons may have gained life's building blocks at birth

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

Astronomers discover rare super-Jupiter orbiting distant star

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...
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Feb. 22, 1906: The first Trojan found

On Feb. 22, 1906, German astronomer Max Wolf made a discovery that adjusted astronomers' view of the cosmos and provided ...

A strange triangle of light appears in late winter skies. Here’s what causes it.

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...
USA Today

Is Jupiter smaller than we thought? NASA spacecraft makes new find

The measurements from NASA's Juno orbiter mark the first time that the size and shape of Jupiter has been evaluated in more than fifty years. NASA's Pioneer and Voyager missions made observations of ...
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NASA’s Jupiter Trojan probe just spotted something never seen before

NASA’s Jupiter Trojan probe has identified the first known contact binary satellite, a rare object formed when two bodies merge into one. The discovery offers new insight into how small objects ...
Arizona Daily Star

University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission also scanning space for 'Trojan' asteroids

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has been given a side job during its seven-year cruise to study and sample an asteroid named Bennu. The NASA spacecraft’s cameras will be looking for ...
Kotaku

Jupiter’s Orbit

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Jupiter’s Orbit A branching narrative, visual novel dating sim where you play asteroid dT. There are 4 loves, astrological secrets, and multiple endings ...
Forbes

Jupiter Enabled Solar System’s Unique Inner Architecture, Says Study

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...
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Jupiter's Birth May Explain Earth's Stable Orbit

How did Jupiter’s formation shape the solar system, and specifically Earth’s orbit? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...
NASA

Trojan Asteroid Shares Orbit with Earth (Artist Animation)

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This animation illustrates the orbit of 2010 TK7 (green dots), the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by ...
Arizona Daily Star

Tiny 'Trojan' asteroid, Earth share same orbit

NEW YORK - Like a poodle on a leash, a tiny asteroid runs ahead of Earth on the planet's yearlong strolls around the sun, scientists report. The discovery of this companion, which measures only about ...