Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

Why haven’t humans colonized other planets yet?  While we dream of expanding across the solar system, there are hidden and complex barriers in our way. This video dives into the scientific, technical ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

A few students might be drawing a solar system model. Some might be reading articles on planet formation. Many may be ...

The Peoria Riverfront Museum is able to teach children about the planets, stars sun and moon . . . on the go. Thanks to a ...

Why? When Pluto was discovered in 1930, it was long considered as the solar system’s ninth planet. Each of the planets in the solar system, with the exception of Earth, have been named after ...

Past a prison and an elementary school, the T15 pipeline will traverse 45 miles of North Carolina countryside that Shelley ...