Mars isn’t a bright, fire-engine red, but the iron oxide in its rocks makes it appear redder than other planets, especially ...

New Hubble observations reveal unexpected darkening on Uranus’ moons, challenging long-held assumptions about its ...

Explore animals that start with “E,” like the elephant, emu, eel, elk, & echidna! Discover where these animals starting with ...

Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it’s an extremophile in a hot spring or ...

A depiction of the Perseverance rover with a ... charged particles travel along a planet's invisible magnetic field lines. When these particles strike gases in the atmosphere, they heat up and ...

were not as glamorous as this artist's depiction, but the detection was a monumental achievement, researchers said. When the sun releases radiation during a solar storm, charged particles travel along ...

With a thinner atmosphere, surface temperatures dropped; the planet's liquid water began to escape into space, become trapped as ice in the subsurface or polar caps, or become locked in hydrated ...

It shows the planet in spectacular detail and highlights both surface color and composition ... so details stand out in ways impossible with a simple “beige to brown” depiction. Through this approach, ...

"Trip to the Planets, A" is a black-and-white science film featuring imaginative depictions of space travel ... astronauts bouncing around on the surface of Mars and impressive miniature sets ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know ...

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...