Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...
Sharpen your pencils and gird your loins, folks. Saturn, our dream-crushing planet of structure and limits, is going direct ...
A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.
Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
The icy shell of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, may possibly contain a six-mile-thick layer of methane ice beneath its surface ...
A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging assumptions about its potential for life.
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.