Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

Ahead of its dance with Saturn on Feb. 24, Mercury should be seen on Feb. 19 at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes ...

Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive but dead, and certainly not home to any little green men.

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

Scientists explore Lost City, in the Atlantic, where chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents could explain the origin of ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...