UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...

A ball is sitting motionless on a dome. According to standard physics, it should stay put indefinitely, at least until the ...

such as ball valves. The gate in a gate valve is typically made of a wedge or a parallel slide, and it is moved using a stem connected to the actuator. The actuator may be manual or automated, ...

Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble ... “This is a puzzle that challenges the way we have always classified objects ...

(NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) Saturn, by contrast, is practically defined by its extensive rings. It seems likely that, outside the Solar System, rings could be common, given the large number of ...

Singled-out is the Australian government’s $1 billion commitment to subsidising the manufacturing of solar panels. The government is pitching the program as building economic resilience, arguing that ...

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For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space For all of ...

The work joins other studies that have proposed interstellar flybys to explain eccentricities in the orbits of certain objects in the solar system. The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion ...