Category: Editor’s Picks
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A Lost Planet May Have Saved Jupiter and Uranus’s Moons
For decades, astronomers have suspected that our Solar System may not have always looked the way it does today. The giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—likely formed much closer together before gradually migrating to their current positions. Now, new research suggests that an additional giant planet may once have been part of the Solar System.…
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Artemis II Earth splashdown return
NASA’s Artemis II Earth splashdown return marks the closing phase of humanity’s first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years, as four astronauts aboard Orion prepare to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere after a successful journey around the Moon. The mission is a defining systems test for future lunar expeditions, validating deep-space crew operations, high-speed re-entry…
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