Category - Planets

• How Moon was formed just five hours after Earth collision
• Will humans find alien life?
• Life on Mars – ARCHITECTU­RE
• Sun’s surface revealed in clearest ever photos
• Scientists find giant 10-sided pattern in Saturn’s icy clouds
• Spacecraft bound for Mercury faces ‘tricky’ arrival
• China’s Tianwen-3 mission eyes signs of life on Mars: chief scientist
• Forbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake?
• Into its ‘geriatric’ interstell­ar spacecraft
• Mars could be colonised... just not by humans
• Could humans bring microbes to the Moon accidently? Nasa study finds some may survive
• SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
• Forbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake?
• The case for life on Mars just got stronger
• Meet the Neighbors
• The 4.5bn-year-old question: Scientists close to discoverin­g Moon’s origins, thanks to ‘Bepi’
• Flaring up
• Scottish-built instrument starts mapping galaxies
• Telescope sets off to scan universe
• AstroRad vest offers lighter shield against solar storms
• NASA’S ‘Big Bang’ play as it coaxed new life
• How a star with an extreme magnetic eld could prove space is not empty
• Bright side of the moon n
• Study sheds light on early warning signs before eruption of solar flares
• STARBURST CIGAR
• Hansen receives U.S. space medal
• “No matter the merits of any single rationale for sending people to space, they are all downstream of the basic instinct to expand and adapt.”
• Saturn rules the evening sky
• FLYING ON SATURN’S MOON
• THE ROASTED PLANET HEATS UP
• From the Editor
• ASTRONEWS
• How Mars’ largest rivers shaped the planet
• Sky This Month
• Ask Astro
• Jupiter and the Moon play hide-and-seek
• HOW ROMAN WILL UNLOCK THE UNIVERSE