Scientists have uncovered strange ridge networks on Mars using images from spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet over the previous two decades. How and why the…
What Is a Dwarf Planet? A dwarf planet is a celestial body that is in orbit around the Sun and has enough mass to be…
The Instability at the Beginning of the Solar System A new explanation for why our solar system is the way it is — and why…
Among the missions selected for extension are InSight, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey, and Curiosity, all of which have been critical to expanding our understanding…
The planet’s atmosphere explains the gravity of the situation. Venus, Earth’s sister planet, would likely not rotate, if not for its soupy, fast-moving atmosphere. Instead,…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this magnificent view of Jupiter during the mission’s 40th close pass by the giant planet on February 25, 2022. The large,…
NASA’s InSight lander’s seismometer on Mars has recorded two of its strongest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquake. The…
Using ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), an international team of astronomers track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures over a 17-year…
The journey of commissioning the Webb telescope continues this week with the successful cooling of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), through the critical ‘pinch point,’ down…
Neptune Is Cooler Than We Thought New research led by space scientists at the University of Leicester has revealed how temperatures in Neptune’s atmosphere have…
New research shows how the impact that created the Moon’s South Pole–Aitken basin is linked to the stark contrast in composition and appearance between the…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent process.” This…
Sizzling Worlds Vaporize Most of the Dust in Their Atmospheres “When you’re hot, you’re hot!” crooned country singer Jerry Reed in a top 1971 pop…
Researchers of the University of Zurich (UZH) and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS have investigated Jupiter’s formation history in great detail….
Hubble Finds a Planet Forming in an Unconventional Way In general, the formation of planets in our universe can be likened to cooking a meal….
Skywatchers, you have the opportunity to see not just one, but two planetary conjunctions during the month of April 2022! A conjunction is a celestial…
A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on the Red Planet than on Earth…
There’s a huge amount of variety among exoplanets – planets located outside our solar system. There are water worlds, lava planets, egg-shaped worlds, planets with…
