Jupiter is the oldest planet in the Solar System
By Mariella Moon From engadget The king of the planets started taking shape almost as soon as the sun formed 4.6 billion years ago. Jupiter’s ancient name really is well-deserved: according to a new study, the king of the planets…
Rogue planet
This rogue planet contradicts what we know about how planets form By Peter Dockrill, ScienceAlert From Business Insider A giant rogue world once described as the “planet that shouldn’t be there” looks like it actually formed out in deep space,…
Venus wave may be Solar System’s biggest
By Paul Rincon Science editor, From BBC News A giant wave in the atmosphere of Venus may be the biggest of its kind in the Solar System. The feature, observed by a Japanese spacecraft, is thought to be generated in…
Water clouds beyond solar system
Scientists find the first water clouds beyond the Solar System By Jon Fingas From engadget Evidence shows that a failed star has water vapor clouds. At last, astronomers have found evidence of watery clouds beyond our home star… only they’re…
This is your closest look yet at a Kuiper Belt object
By Jon Fingas From engadget NASA’s New Horizons probe spotted an object 3.3 billion miles away from the Sun. That moving dot you see in the picture above may not seem like much at first glance, but it’s a pretty…
Scientists discover cosmic factory for making building blocks of life
From Phys.org Scientists have discovered a ‘cosmic factory’ for producing the building blocks of life, amino acids, in research published today [Sep 15 2013] in the journal Nature Geoscience. The team from Imperial College London, the University of Kent and…
Earth’s water came from asteroids not comets, Rosetta mission probe results suggest
By Alok Jha Science Correspondent From ITV News One of the most important goals of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission at the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is to help planetary scientists work out where the Earth’s oceans came from. When the…
