New Evidence Why Pluto Should Be Reclassified As A Planet
The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida. In 2006, the International Astronomical…
The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida. In 2006, the International Astronomical…
After snagging a new rock sample on August 9, NASA’s Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Mars, producing a 360-degree panorama of its current location…
Wolf 503b, an exoplanet twice the size of Earth, has been discovered by an international team using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. The find…
The long-lived international Cassini mission has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn’s northern pole as it nears summertime: a warming, high-altitude vortex with a…
Early in 2017, Assistant Professor Yoko Oya gave graduate student Yuki Okoda some recent complex data on a nearby star with which she could begin…
The planet Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field which forms the largest object in the solar physics. Observations of Jupiter’s magnetosphere in the 1990s…
On December 7, 1995, NASA’s historic Galileo probe plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere at 106,000 mph (107,600 kph), relaying 58 minutes of data back to Earth…
A planet-encircling dust storm on Mars, which was first detected on May 30 and halted operations for the Opportunity rover, continues to abate. With clearing…
The conditions for life surviving on planets entirely covered in water are more fluid than previously thought, opening up the possibility that water worlds could…
For centuries, scientists have worked to understand the makeup of Jupiter. It’s no wonder: this mysterious planet is the biggest one in our solar system…
Ambitious climbers, forget Mt. Everest. Dream about Mars. The Red Planet has some of the tallest mountains in the solar system. They include Olympus Mons,…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures the striking atmospheric features of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere in this series of color-enhanced images. An anticyclonic white oval, called N5-AWO, can…
With an equator diameter of around 143,000 kilometers (89,000 miles), Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 300 times the mass…
The mass of a very young exoplanet has been revealed for the first time using data from the European Space Agency’s star mapping spacecraft Gaia…
NASA’s InSight spacecraft, en route to a November 26 landing on Mars, passed the halfway mark on August 6. All of its instruments have been…
In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s…
Swirling dense metallic hydrogen dominates the interiors of Jupiter, Saturn and many extra-solar planets. Building precise models of these giant planets requires an accurate description…
Scientists have shown that water is likely to be a major component of those exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) which are between two to four…