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A recent study published in Nature Astronomyhas provided compelling evidence for a frozen ocean world on the dwarf planet ...
Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...
Asteroid 2003 MH4, a large space rock, will pass by Earth on May 24, 2025. While not an immediate threat, its size and ...
Volcanoes rage on Io's surface, earning it the title of ... dusty rings. Planet Jupiter, explained And when NASA's Juno spacecraft began orbiting Jupiter in 2016, it quickly started sending ...
China hopes Tianwen-2 will match the success of its US and Japanese space rivals by exploring an unusual Near-Earth Asteroid ...
Perseverance has so far found a rock, dubbed Cheyava Falls, which is the strongest evidence of something possibly modified by life. It is the weakest possibility of life signal on NASA’s CoLD scale, ...
The team's calculations indicate that young Jupiter had a radius nearly twice its current size, with a volume large enough to ...
This prototype lander is collecting ice samples here on Earth, in the hope that it might help scientists peek at the ocean ...
Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...
Between May 20 and 24, the moon, Saturn and Venus will meet in a mini 'planetary parade,' becoming visible in the northern ...
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The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.
Stunning new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that Jupiter’s auroras shine hundreds of times brighter than those on Earth. These glowing light shows occur when high-energy particles ...