Most of humanity’s knowledge about Uranus came from a 1986 Voyager 2 flyby on “a particularly windy day.” A new study says ...

Astronomers at UC Berkeley have identified mysterious Earth-sized spots at Jupiter’s poles with rapid life cycles.

The dark UV ovals were first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during the late 1990s at the north and south poles.

When Voyager 2 completed its flyby of Neptune in 1989, the solar system's most distant ... Huygens revealed a world strikingly similar to Earth, with rivers, lakes, and seas of liquid methane and ...

Cassini stays locked onto its target and actually turns very slightly during the exposures. Meanwhile the stars move slowly across the sky, and their images are smeared out as streaks. Interestingly, ...

30, 2024 — More accurate orbit predictions for satellites and space debris as well as a better understanding of the water masses present on Earth: Researchers at achieved both using satellite laser ...

Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. "The frequency of these things is it's ...

Southwest Research Institute, supported by NASA’s Habitable Worlds program, is repurposing corrosion modeling software to ...

When humans pump groundwater, it has a substantial impact on the tilt of Earth’s rotation. Additionally, a study documents just how much of an influence groundwater pumping has on climate change.

In fact, researchers said it is the equivalent in age to a two-week-old baby. In comparison, Earth, a middle-aged planet, is some 4.5 billion years old. Still glowing from the heat of its ...