The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...
Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be devoid of life as scientists initially thought. Instead, it is now ...
Discover more about the Sun's solar cycle and how it impacts us here on Earth, from increased auroras to overwhelmed power ...
November 17-18 will see the peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower, the leftovers of the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which was last in the inner solar system in 1998.
The Martian calendar, established in 1955, counts years from the "great dust storm of 1956," a significant event in Mars' ...
For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...
If your neighbor installs solar panels, you're more likely to too. This "social contagion" can spread further in religious ...
The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
Friday marks the final supermoon of 2024, the last of four consecutive instances of the phenomenon to end the year.