What we all know as "ice" can take up to 20 different forms. One type, superionic ice, only exists deep inside planets called ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, which launched on April 14, 2023, captured a unique view of the Earth, its moon and Uranus, which, like Jupiter, is a gas ...

This revealed that Uranus and Neptune are actually a rather similar shade ... so the researchers added a new variable to the model in the form of a "hood" of gradually thickening icy haze that has ...

"There's very strong evidence that the ingredients for life exist on Europa, but we have to go there to find out." ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission, will travel 1.8 billion ...

Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large ...

All these thoughts of photographs of the planets and whatnot take me back to my childhood, when I pored through books ...

Researchers have recreated the bizarre spider-like features seen on the surface of Mars for the first time ever. The ...

NASA is weeks away from sending its Clipper orbiter on a journey to the Jupiter moon Europa, which scientists believe could ...

Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...

We are all familiar with our one Moon but other planets have different numbers of moons; Mercury has none, Jupiter has 95 and ...

Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...