Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Dragging the trash barrel to the curb, I look up at the night sky, and my current self is instantly tethered to all my past ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Let’s talk space rocks, folks. The placement and movement of planets and constellations in the birth chart offer insights ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society sits down with host David Ariosto. The conversation starts with Bill’s journey but quickly pivots to the ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just observed the oldest dead galaxy, that is, one in which the birth of new stars has ...

In 2012, it landed the one-ton Curiosity rover on Mars after ... And Jupiter’s magnetosphere is massive: It bulges up to two million miles toward the sun and extends like a windsock more than ...

Jupiter is the heavyweight champion of the planets, but Neptune is no slouch either. According to NASA, Neptune is about 17 t ...