Time Across the Solar System
Making planetary science personal, engaging, and mind-blowing — through the universal experience of time.Have you ever wondered what time means on another world?On Earth, a day lasts 24 hours. But on Jupiter, it’s less than 10.
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A 100-Mile Ocean on Ariel? Radio Bursts from Another Planet & Ancient Mars (opens the original)
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A moon of Uranus may once have hidden an ocean more than one hundred miles deep. Astronomers have detected radio bursts coming directly from a planet sixty-three light-years away. And NASA is uncovering a much more complicated history of water on ancient Mars.This week on Time Across the Solar System, Tess explores ten stories about something astronomy does remarkably well: discovering things we cannot see directly.We investigate Ariel’s possible subsurface ocean, new techniques for tracking ast
Starship Flight 14, Purple Mars & a Galaxy Spinning Sideways (opens the original)
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Starship has a new launch date. Mars has turned purple. And Hubble has found a galaxy whose centre appears to be rotating in a completely different direction from the rest. This week on Time Across the Solar System , Tess explores ten stories showing how space is becoming a place humanity must not only explore, but also schedule, monitor and manage. We look at SpaceX’s next Starship flight, Europe’s growing launch market, tiny brown dwarfs photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope, the stra
Mysterious X-Ray Objects, 3I/ATLAS & the Dark Energy Question (opens the original)
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This week on Time Across the Solar System , Tess explores ten stories about the records the universe leaves behind. Astronomers uncover a mysterious new class of hypersoft X-ray sources hidden in old Chandra data. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS offers clues about the star system where it was born. A new analysis questions whether cosmic expansion is really accelerating. The MOONS instrument begins peering through dust toward the heart of the Milky Way, while China’s FAST telescope releases a vast c
Roman Launches, Saturn’s Decagon & Mars Gets an Internet (opens the original)
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This week on Time Across the Solar System , Tess explores ten stories showing why timing matters everywhere in space. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins its journey toward L2, NASA selects Blue Origin for a future Mars communications network, and astronomers report a remarkable ten-sided atmospheric structure around Saturn’s south pole. We also follow China’s Tiangong space station across the night sky, Rocket Lab’s latest radar satellite, Venus and the September sky, plans for a U.S.
Blood Moon Eclipse, Roman Telescope Launch & Artemis Astronaut Honors — Space News for Kids (Aug 28, 2026) (opens the original)
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This week on Time Across the Solar System: a 93% partial lunar eclipse turned the Moon copper-red over the UK and Ireland, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prepares to launch this weekend, and the Artemis II astronauts receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for their historic Moon flyby. Plus: Turkey joins the Artemis Accords, NASA studies whether Earth microbes could survive at the Moon's south pole, a new European weather satellite reaches orbit, and rockets around the world in
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