A hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury -- situated 339 million light years away -- has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick. Named K2-229b ( really?),...
The Valley of the Gods in Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere on Friday, after 20 years in space. Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004, after a seven-year voyage. It was the first spacecraft to orbit the ringed planet. Too many great images to post ...
Milestone Missions Forty years ago, the Voyager 1 and 2 missions began their journey from Earth to become the farthest-reaching missions in history. In the course of their missions, the two probes spent the next two decades sailing past the gas g...
Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double-take after pinpointing its location near Neptune's equator, a region where no bright cloud has been seen before. The discovery was made at dawn on June 26 a...
Last year, the existence of an unknown planet in our Solar system was announced. However, this hypothesis was subsequently called into question as biases in the observational data were detected. Now astronomers have used a novel technique to analy...
July 12, 2017Source:NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval. The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the ...
Evidence of a real ninth planet discovered (video https://youtu.be/jy6JcViPkWg) Date:January 20, 2016Source:California Institute of TechnologySummary:Researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in t...
'True Size Map' Proves You've Been Picturing The Planet All Wrong It'll rock your world. Did you know that California is more than four times the size of Portugal? Or that you could fit China, the U.S. and India into the continent of Africa, wit...
Dione Crosses Saturn's Disk In Spectacular New Image The photo was captured from approximately 1.4 million miles away. NASA has released an incredible new image showing one of Saturn's many moons crossing the planet's disk. The moon Dione, ...
Stephen Hawking's New Black Hole Idea May Blow Your Mind The famed physicist reveals a new idea for how information might be able to escape a black hole. How do you escape from a black hole? Stephen Hawking has an idea. In front of a crowd ...
