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Neptune-like planet 'Phoenix' baffles astronomers with its atmosphere
Astronomy Magazine· 4 hours agoAstronomers have discovered a planet beyond our solar system that’s so cozy with its host star, its...
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 hours agoDays after solar storms spurred widespread sightings of auroras across Earth in early May, a new bout of eruptions on the sun brought glowing skies to another planet: Mars. The radiation was ...
A massive solar storm hits Mars, revealing a risk for future astronauts on the red planet
CNN.com· 3 days agoWhen the sun unleashed an extreme solar storm and hit Mars in May, it engulfed the red planet with...
Mars Got Cooked by a Recent Solar Storm
New York Times· 4 days agoObserved from Mars, “this was the strongest solar energetic particle event we’ve seen to date,” said Shannon Curry, the principal investigator of NASA’s...
The speed of sound on Mars is constantly changing, bizarre study finds
LiveScience· 6 days agoResearchers have teased out the details of how sound behaves at various times and places on Mars —...
Radiation could pose challenge to putting people on Mars
The Hill· 2 days agoA record-setting solar storm made the aurora borealis visible as far south as North Carolina,...
Ian Sample, The Guardian
The Raw Story· 21 minutes agoThe face of Pluto emerged from the gloom to reveal a dazzling landscape of ridges, ice mountains and plains of solid nitrogen hundreds of miles wide. Robots on the ground and in the sky above ...
Remember the northern lights last month? See how that solar storm impacted Mars’ surface
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days ago“This was the largest solar energetic particle event that MAVEN has ever seen,” said Christina Lee,...
Radiation will be a real challenge for Mars colonists, powerful solar storm shows
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA powerful solar storm in May 2024 created auroras on Mars and provided scientists with crucial...
A Mysterious Hole on Mars May Be a Gateway to Ancient Life—and the Future of Humanity
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 4 days agoMild temperature swings, a magnetic radiation shield, and an abundance of freshwater makes our...
