Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

A planetary magnetic field is produced by a geodynamo effect deep inside a planet. A planet like Earth has an iron-nickel ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

How would Xenomorphs even get to our pale blue dot? ‘Alien Earth’ is propped to show us exactly that, as well as the horror ...

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