Previous observations suggested that Ceres was less than 30% ice, and its craters were thought to imply that the dwarf planet ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

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Artist’s illustration of a distant white dwarf with an Earth-like planet in an orbit just beyond ... [+] where Mars is in our solar system. Earth could end up in such an orbit circling a white ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

This Rocky Planet Around a White Dwarf Resembles Earth -- 8 Billion Years from Now Sep. 26, 2024 — A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown ...

But these systems are increasingly at risk due to global environmental challenges like climate change ... Protecting and restoring Earth’s rainforests is crucial to our planet’s survival.

It is the modern update to continental drift, an idea first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912, who that Earth’s continents had "drifted" across the planet ... "It's kind of like ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — When lightning cracks on Earth ... comparison of the planet from two very different ... NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball Oct. 9, 2024 ...