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 ...
The “lights will go out’’ under a wind, solar, hydro model where all coal power is closed, the final day of a parliamentary ...
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...
The spacecraft Juno just finished its 66th trip around Jupiter, sending back some of the highest-resolution images we’ve seen ...
The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...
Occasionally, during explosions called coronal mass ejections, the Sun releases charged particles that speed across the solar ...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...
In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft, on its 66th flyby of Jupiter, has captured breathtaking images of the planet's turbulent storms and ...