An Italian hunting for water on the moons of Jupiter
After participating in the discovery of the underground lake at the South Pole of Mars in 2018, the Italian Elena Pettinelli of the Roma Tre
After participating in the discovery of the underground lake at the South Pole of Mars in 2018, the Italian Elena Pettinelli of the Roma Tre
The giant planets of the Solar System (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) migrated into their current orbits between 60 and 100 million years after the
When the Sun dies, Mercury and Venus will be swallowed up: the same fate will most likely befall the Earth, while some asteroids in the
The rare ‘glory effect’, a rainbow-like optical phenomenon surrounding shadows of objects with bright colored halos, has been glimpsed for the first time on a
The wind made of ultraviolet rays blowing from some stars is forever erasing the possibility that gaseous planets similar to those of our Solar System,
A cannibalistic star has swallowed fragments of its planetary system: the phenomenon has been known for some time, but for the first time a truly
Three new moons have been discovered in the Solar System, one orbiting Uranus and two around Neptune: the official announcement was made by the Minor
The band of rocky and icy bodies surrounding the outer Solar System, the so-called Kuiper beltcould be more extensive than what has been hypothesized so
A ‘compact’ planetary system has been identified that has broken the record of the youngest: it is ‘only’ 650 million years old, compared to the
Two plumes of gas emitted from as many volcanic vents, high mountain peaks that cast well-defined shadows and lava lakes that even seem to host