Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at…
Browsing: Planets
Planets are celestial bodies that orbit stars, formed from the gas and dust of young solar systems. They come in a wide variety—from rocky worlds like Earth and Mars to gas giants like Jupiter and ice giants like Neptune. Studying planets helps scientists understand how solar systems form and evolve, including the conditions that might support life. This field includes both planets in our own solar system and exoplanets, planets orbiting stars beyond the Sun, discovered by powerful telescopes and space missions. This page features the latest research and discoveries about planets, their atmospheres, surfaces, and potential habitability.
The ExoMars Orbiter captured a chaotic Martian landscape near Hooke Crater, featuring dust devil tracks…
Volcanoes, impact craters, tectonic faults, river channels, and a lava sea: a vast amount of…
Scientists have thought that the asteroid Psyche could be a big ball of pure iron,…
Astronomers confirmed Proxima d, a Mars-sized exoplanet, around Proxima Centauri. It’s one of the lightest…
NASA researchers predict that Mars helicopters, like Ingenuity, could generate static electricity while flying at…
The planet’s auroras are known to produce low-energy X-ray light. A new study finally reveals…
A ring of planetary debris studded with moon-sized structures has been observed orbiting close to…
Astronomers using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a third planet, Proxima d, orbiting…
Final Moments of Planetary Remnants Seen for the First Time New study confirms decades of…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of…
A new study from the University of Warwick demonstrates the impact of passing stars, misaligned…
The inner core of Earth is in a superionic state, where light elements move like…
Saturn’s high-altitude winds generate an extraordinary aurorae. University of Leicester space scientists have discovered a…
Research on an ancient meteorite shows Earth’s water existed in the early solar system, suggesting…
New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex ‘tug-of-war’ lights up…
New research has discovered that megaripples on Mars’ north polar region are actively migrating, challenging…
NASA research indicates Martian drones could produce electrical currents causing visible atmospheric glows, akin to…