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If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be ...
Most people don't spend much time thinking about space weather, but a strong geomagnetic storm has the power to bring the ...
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an exotic world with methane rivers, icy terrain, and a thick, hazy atmosphere. Its unique ...
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.
Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a ...
NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.
Laika was a three-year-old mixed terrier who was taken from the streets of Russia and thrust into a rocket in the name of ...
While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, DARPA made a highly unusual ...
The model tracks the oxygen "turnover" — how much oxygen is produced and consumed — in inland waters since 1900. The ...
Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...