"Let's count down 11 recently discovered Earth-like planets! When Earth is no longer habitable, where could humans go? These ...
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 ...
Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...
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The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...
Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...