Slashdot Items Tagged "planets"

Date / Time Story
Friday March 01, 2024 @07:28PM The Desert Planet In 'Dune' Is Plausible, According To Science
Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:43PM Mars Has a Surprise Layer of Molten Rock Inside
Monday October 02, 2023 @08:15PM James Webb Space Telescope's First Spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 Planet
Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:49PM Newly Discovered Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Tonight
Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:26PM A Newly Discovered Planet 40% Larger Than Earth May Be Suitable For Life
Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:16PM This Massive Planet Shouldn't Exist
Monday August 30, 2021 @05:12PM One-Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Eaten Their Planets
Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:10PM Kepler Telescope Glimpses Population of Free-Floating Planets
Monday June 28, 2021 @10:29PM There Could Be Many More Earth-Sized Planets Than Previously Thought
Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:57PM TESS Discovers Its First Earth-Sized Planet
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:13PM Other Solar Systems Could Be More Habitable Than Ours
Friday November 06, 2020 @07:55PM Scientists Discover Bizarre Hell Planet Where It Rains Rocks and Oceans Are Made of Lava
Wednesday August 26, 2020 @10:09PM Breakthrough AI Identifies 50 New Planets From Old NASA Data
Monday August 10, 2020 @08:01PM Planet Ceres Is An 'Ocean World' With Sea Water Beneath Surface, Mission Finds
Monday August 10, 2020 @07:53PM What Mars Would Look Like If Its Surface Was Covered With Water
Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:30PM Core of a Gas Planet Seen For the First Time
Friday June 19, 2020 @06:41PM Are Planets With Oceans Common In the Galaxy? It's Likely, NASA Scientists Find
Monday May 18, 2020 @05:19PM Mystery of Lava-Like Flows On Mars Solved By Scientists
Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:56PM Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planet Found Hidden In Early NASA Kepler Data
Monday March 23, 2020 @07:27PM Star Wars: Tatooine Was Likely Orbiting In the Same Plane As Its Twin Suns
Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:43PM Molten Iron Rain Falls Through the Skies of Scorching-Hot Exoplanet
Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:26PM Water Found On a Potentially Life-Friendly Alien Planet
Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:53PM Two Potentially Life-Friendly Planets Found Orbiting a Nearby Star
Wednesday May 29, 2019 @10:57PM Brown Dwarf Atmospheres As The Potentially Most Detectable And Abundant Sites For Life
Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:43PM Mars Had Big Rivers For Billions of Years, Study Suggests
Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:13PM Astronomer Finds Potential Furthest Object In Solar System
Friday November 16, 2018 @10:00PM NASA Decommissions the Kepler Space Telescope
Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:48PM With Fuel Exhausted, NASA Retires Kepler Telescope
Monday July 02, 2018 @06:13PM First Confirmed Image of a Newborn Planet Revealed
Monday June 11, 2018 @08:35PM Mars Opportunity Rover Is In Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm
Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:12AM Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets?
Friday June 01, 2018 @12:59AM NASA Spacecraft Finds Methane Ice Dunes On Pluto
Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:33AM Orbits of Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate, Says Study
Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:19PM SpaceX Launches NASA's Planet-Hunting Satellite, Successfully Lands Its Falcon 9 Rocket
Monday February 05, 2018 @10:58PM Scientists May Have Discovered the First Planets Outside the Milky Way
Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:59PM NASA Poised To Topple a Planet-Finding Barrier
Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:52PM The Alien Megastructure Around Mysterious 'Tabby's Star' Is Probably Just Dust, Analysis Shows
Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:48PM Astronomers Have Come Up With a Better Way To Weigh Millions of Solitary Stars
Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:42PM NASA, Google Spot Eighth Planet in Solar System Rivaling Ours
Monday October 16, 2017 @09:22PM Google Maps Now Lets You Explore Your Local Planets and Moons
Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:42PM Scientists Discover Ring Around Dwarf Planet Haumea Beyond Neptune
Tuesday September 19, 2017 @04:37PM NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet
Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:25PM Astronomers Detect Four Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting The Nearest Sun-Like Star
Friday April 07, 2017 @08:11PM There's an Earth-like Planet With an Atmosphere Just 39 Light-years Away
Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:22PM Public Crowd-sourcing Finds New Exoplanets
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:59PM NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Begins Its Final Mission Before Plunging Into Saturn
Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:53PM A New Definition Would Add 102 Planets To Our Solar System -- Including Pluto
Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:49PM NASA Scientists Propose New Definition of Planets, and Pluto Could Soon Be Back
Friday February 17, 2017 @08:48PM Juno Jupiter Probe Won't Move Into Shorter Orbit After All
Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:43AM Astronomers Discover 60 New Planets Including 'Super Earth'
Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:55PM Pluto's 'Icy Heart' May Have Tilted the Dwarf Planet Over
Monday October 17, 2016 @05:21PM Venus May Have Been the First Habitable Planet In Our Solar System, Study Suggests
Saturday September 17, 2016 @12:44AM Pluto Is Emitting X-Rays
Friday September 09, 2016 @06:32PM New Research Reveals Hundreds of Undiscovered Black Holes
Monday August 29, 2016 @10:43PM Hunt For Ninth Planet Reveals Distant Solar System Objects
Monday August 29, 2016 @05:08PM SETI Has Observed a 'Strong' Signal That May Originate From a Sun-like Star
Friday August 26, 2016 @09:25PM Juno Probe To Get First Up-Close Look At Jupiter On Saturday
Monday July 18, 2016 @08:05PM Kepler Confirms 100+ New Exoplanets
Tuesday July 12, 2016 @07:51PM NASA's Juno Spacecraft Sends First Images From Jupiter
Friday July 08, 2016 @08:54PM First Water Clouds Reported Outside The Solar System
Tuesday July 05, 2016 @05:47AM NASA's Juno Space Probe Enters Orbit Around Jupiter
Saturday June 25, 2016 @01:19AM NASA Approves Five More Years For Hubble Space Telescope
Friday June 17, 2016 @12:50AM Astronomers Say There Could Be At Least Two More Mystery Planets In Our Solar System
Tuesday May 10, 2016 @09:14PM NASA's Planet Hunter Spots Record 1,284 New Planets, 9 In A Habitable Zone
Monday May 02, 2016 @11:56AM Scientists Discover Three Potentially Habitable Planets
Monday April 18, 2016 @08:11PM NASA: Top 10 Space Junk Missions
Friday March 25, 2016 @08:37PM Saturn's Moons and Rings May Be Younger Than The Dinosaurs
Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:45PM More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives
Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:09PM 2 Planets Can Share the Same Orbit, In 3 Different Ways
Saturday June 27, 2015 @04:02PM Why Didn't Voyager Visit Pluto?
Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:25AM We May Have Jupiter To Thank For the Nitrogen In Earth's Atmosphere
Saturday January 17, 2015 @02:53PM Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects
Monday December 08, 2014 @11:13AM Why Pluto Still Matters
Friday June 22, 2012 @11:11AM Kepler-36's 'Odd Couple' Defy Planet Formation Theories
Saturday March 24, 2012 @07:14PM NASA's Kepler Discovers 11 Systems Hosting 26 Planets
Thursday January 26, 2012 @06:26PM 11 New Multi-Planet Star Systems Discovered
Friday January 13, 2012 @07:50PM Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds
Wednesday January 04, 2012 @02:25PM First Four Exoplanets of 2012 Discovered
Monday May 09, 2011 @12:46AM Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds
Wednesday March 02, 2011 @11:28AM Kepler Finds Bizarre Systems
Saturday January 15, 2011 @12:24PM Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic
Monday December 20, 2010 @01:11PM Join a Worldwide Planet Search
Friday November 12, 2010 @07:57PM Pluto Might Be Bigger Than Eris
Friday July 23, 2010 @11:08PM Earth As an Extrasolar Planet