Planetary science - page 2

Planetary science - page 2

27 December 2025
Tags - Planetary science
TEHRAN (ANA)- What is the true definition of a planet, and could there be a more refined definition in the future?
News ID: 6875   Publish Date : 2024/09/01

TEHRAN (ANA)- Mosses are among Earth's great terraformers, turning barren rock into fertile soils, and now a team of scientists is proposing these non-vascular plants could do the same on Mars.
News ID: 6874   Publish Date : 2024/09/01

TEHRAN (ANA)- Geologists discovered two new minerals at the world's largest rare-earth mine in northern China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has announced.
News ID: 6665   Publish Date : 2024/08/05

TEHRAN (ANA)- A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered that glassy materials within the lunar soil samples, which were brought back by the country's Chang'e-5 lunar exploration mission, contain hydroxyl and molecular water generated from a variety of sources.
News ID: 6129   Publish Date : 2024/06/03

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers studying the binary asteroid Mors-Somnus in the Kuiper Belt have used the James Webb Space Telescope to gather unique data on trans-Neptunian objects, offering new insights into the formation of Neptune and the outer solar system’s dynamics.
News ID: 5604   Publish Date : 2024/04/08

TEHRAN (ANA)- Using spectral imaging data of China's first solar exploration satellite, Xihe, a group of Chinese physicists constructed three-dimensional velocity diagrams of two kinds of plasmas in the sun's atmosphere.
News ID: 5332   Publish Date : 2024/03/21

TEHRAN (ANA)- The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a new structure within the Beta Pictoris system, resembling a cat’s tail.
News ID: 5063   Publish Date : 2024/02/08

TEHRAN (ANA)- An international team of researchers have found that atmospheric CO2 levels hold the key to discovering habitable planets.
News ID: 5028   Publish Date : 2024/02/05

TEHRAN (ANA)- University of Cambridge researchers have unveiled a missing component in the clouds of Venus.
News ID: 5014   Publish Date : 2024/02/03

TEHRAN (ANA)- A fresh analysis of some old images by the University of Oxford has revealed that we've been wrong about Neptune this whole time.
News ID: 4896   Publish Date : 2024/01/24

TEHRAN (ANA)- Research by the UC Riverside reveals that giant gas planets in other star systems often make their Earth-like neighbors uninhabitable by disrupting orbits and climates.
News ID: 4879   Publish Date : 2024/01/22

TEHRAN (ANA)- An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in highly irradiated rocky planets.
News ID: 4775   Publish Date : 2024/01/12

TEHRAN (ANA)- The Red Planet has a dense core of liquid iron surrounded by a relatively thin layer of molten rock, researchers report.
News ID: 4710   Publish Date : 2024/01/06

TEHRAN (ANA)- A ground-breaking new discovery by University of Leeds scientists could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and most common stars in the Universe.
News ID: 4608   Publish Date : 2023/12/26

TEHRAN (ANA)- Swirling patterns etched into the surface of the Moon appear to be linked to changes in the shape of that surface, after all.
News ID: 4576   Publish Date : 2023/12/23

TEHRAN (ANA)- NASA scientists have been puzzling over a group of planets that seem to be shrinking. The culprit might be radiation.
News ID: 4550   Publish Date : 2023/12/21

TEHRAN (ANA)- NASA scientists have been puzzling over a group of planets that seem to be shrinking, a report said, adding the culprit might be radiation.
News ID: 4516   Publish Date : 2023/12/19

TEHRAN (ANA)- Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have achieved a significant advancement in measuring the Earth’s rotation with unprecedented precision.
News ID: 4439   Publish Date : 2023/12/11

TEHRAN (ANA)- A Lancaster University PhD student has measured the optical depth of Saturn’s rings using a new method based on how much sunlight reached the Cassini spacecraft while it was in the shadow of the rings.
News ID: 4426   Publish Date : 2023/12/10

TEHRAN (ANA)- Are Saturn's rings really vanishing by 2025? Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland, reveals the truth.
News ID: 4317   Publish Date : 2023/11/29

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