NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s high-inclination Grand Finale orbits offered an unprecedented new view of Saturn and its environment. New research from the Grand Finale phase shows a powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving from the gas giant to its rings and its sixth-largest moon, Enceladus.
Astronomers have traced a high-energy neutrino to its cosmic source for the first time ever, solving a century-old mystery in the process.
Sunspots are becoming scarce. Very scarce.
Venus’s days may be getting slightly shorter thanks to a bizarre mismatch in the rotations of its rocky body and its thick, toxic atmosphere.
NASA will undertake a 21-day mission to Hawaii’s undersea Lo’ihi volcano to learn more about life in extreme places.
March 5, 2018: Cosmic rays are bad–and they’re getting worse.
A new study confirms that this collision with a huge object — which was approximately twice the size of Earth — could have led to the planet’s extreme tilt and other odd attributes. Uranus, the planet with the unforgettable name, is unique in a number of ways. “All of the planets in the solar system
New research shows the closest-ever views of features in Jupiter’s swirling auroras, revealing the complicated footprints left by its moons Io and Ganymede.
Asteroids could have more materials on them then we thought.
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft plans to strike the asteroid creating a crater and dislodging rocks for analysis
