Tag: Solar system
Saturn’s moon Mimas would also hide an ocean under its surface
Around Saturn there was already Enceladus and Titan. Among the moons of the ringed planet that hide a liquid ocean under their surface, it will now probably also be necessary…
Mimas, the other moon of Saturn which would hide an ocean
Around Saturn there was already Enceladus and Titan. Among the moons of the ringed planet that hide a liquid ocean under their surface, it will now probably also be necessary…
A carbon signature detected on Mars could be of biological origin
Carbon is at the heart of life. But not only… So when astronomers get their hands on a rather special form of carbon on Mars, they consider that it could…
Mars: does this carbon signal detected by Curiosity betray the presence of life?
Carbon is at the heart of life. But not only… So when astronomers get their hands on a rather special form of carbon than the planet Mars, they consider that…
They want to send tardigrades to other planets!
Many of us dream of traveling to the stars. And while the technology that will take humans beyond our solar system is not yet perfected, engineers are already working to…
We are passing through a huge gas bubble on the surface of which stars are forming
Our Solar System is navigating through a particularly empty region of space. Surrounded by a local bubble, as astronomers call it. And today, they tell us how this bubble was…
Tardigrades as passengers of the first interstellar journey
Many of us dream of traveling to the stars. And while the technology that will take humans beyond our Solar System is not yet developed, engineers are already working on…
Scientists want to send Earth life forms to other stars
Many of us dream of traveling to the stars. And while the technology that will take humans beyond our Solar System is not yet developed, engineers are already working on…
Formation of the Solar System: news on the origin of Mars and the Earth
Some cosmochemists suspected that the Earth and Mars would have formed by accreting significant amounts of matter from the regions where the giant planets were born. Showing that this was…
How long does it take to reach each planet in the Solar System from Earth?
We are 41 million kilometers from Venus, 78 million kilometers from Mars and 4.3 billion kilometers from Neptune. How long did the different space probes take to reach the different…