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A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...
An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...
The Solar System consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity; the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...
The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...
Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...
NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.
Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...
The vermilion, amethyst and jade ribbons of the northern and southern lights are some of Earth’s most distinctive features.