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Of the solar system’s planets, Saturn piques the human imagination with its signature rings and impressive moon count of 274. But compelling new research reignites theories of an…
Read more Saturn’s Rings Came From a Two-Moon Collision About 100 Million Years Ago, Study SaysOutschool has announced a one-of-a-kind virtual event that will allow learners around the world to communicate live with a simulated Mars mission, complete with a real Earth-to-Mars communication delay.…
Read more Parenting 101: Outschool’s free mission to MarsIf proto-Earth had all its parts and chemistry replaced to become the Earth we know today, can the two still be considered the same planet? That’s the planetary…
Read more A Planet Inside a Planet? Traces of Pre-Moon Earth Found Deep BelowBetween the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our solar system’s space rocks. The asteroid…
Read more The Asteroid Belt Is VanishingFor scientists, the urgent problem with phosphine—a molecule famously touted as a potential sign of life—isn’t so much about where it came from, but why it’s not where…
Read more ‘Failed Star’ Mimics a Key Sign of Life, Complicating Our Search for AliensBy studying the chemical composition of an odd, dying star, astronomers discovered that it had been feasting on what used to be an icy, Pluto-like object. Nature can…
Read more ‘Dead’ Star Caught Snacking on Pluto-Like ObjectPluto isn’t a planet. That really shouldn’t be a controversial statement any more, but it regains new contentiousness with the release of epic space RPG, Starfield. Developer and…
Read more Starfield Doesn’t Require Fast Travel After All…Sort Of