The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Juno sheds light on Jupiter’s polar storms and Io’s hidden lava, offering insights at two of the solar system’s most extreme ...

"Before Hubble, no generation ever had access to unimaginably vibrant views of space, stretching almost all the way back to almost the beginning of time." ...

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface ... slabs – up to 62 miles (100 kilometers) thick – carry significant ...

The atmosphere on Jupiter is radically different from that on Earth ... the water layer, where water vapor condenses into a liquid. But radio observations by Juno traced the regions of poor mixing to ...

Titan’s atmosphere is thick and dense ... and liquid—ranges between 380,000 to 990,000 cubic kilometers. Beneath this landscape, a thick icy crust, up to 200 kilometers deep, rests above ...

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

The color signifies the layer of Earth's atmosphere where ... In the very thick lower atmosphere, less than 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface, we see a purplish mixture of ...

Captured last December when Mars was approximately 60 million miles (98 million kilometers) from Earth, the snapshots ... dioxide freezes and forms a thick ice layer on the northern polar cap ...

A good estimation of the cloud tops is like the finest gold, especially for pilots flying under IFR during the winter months.