Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

A massive hotspot - larger the Earth's Lake Superior - can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated ...

The northern and southern lights, auroras visible from the poles, glow with a range of different colored lights. Here's the ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: Is there a Marian symbolism related to the moon? Is the expression "pale moon rising" a Marian reference? A: It would be interesting to see the exact ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

The moon likely formed from material ejected from Earth's mantle, with minimal contribution from the protoplanet Theia, as indicated by the high isotopic similarity of oxygen-17 between Earth and ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Wolf Moon waxed full on Jan. 13. You may have seen it - the first full moon of the New Year - hanging low on the horizon these last several evenings, tinted orangish-yellow ...

The first full moon of the year, the Wolf Moon, will reach peak illumination at 5:27 p.m. ET ... reaching its peak on January 25. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Mercury will form a ...

The hot Jupiter WASP-132, with a mass just under half that of Jupiter, orbits its star in just over seven Earth days. The super-Earth, with around six times the mass of the Earth, orbits the star ...

It contains a Hot Jupiter that orbits its star in seven days and three hours; a Super-Earth (a rocky planet six times the mass of the Earth) that orbits the star in just 24 hours and 17 minutes ...