Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...

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

Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough ... more than 70% of the total combined mass of all the planets in the Solar System. After the planets, the last scrum of remaining matter ...

CHABOT: How far do these dark regions extend beyond, to the edge of our solar system? Are there more planets in the dark region waiting to be discovered? ♪ ♪ (dog barking in distance ...

It’s always a pleasant surprise when an event I’m assigned to cover turns out to be more interesting than I expected. Despite ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

The implications of discovering Planet Nine as a black hole or super-Earth It does not matter whether Planet Nine is a super-Earth or a black hole – its discovery will change our view of the solar ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a "googly eye" solar eclipse as the planet's moon Phobos passed ... using its powerful Mastcam-Z camera system. NASA recently shared a new video ...