The twin spacecraft of NASA's TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission were ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
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Uranus has long been thought to have been a completely "dead" planetary system - but now experts are not so sure.
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Lonesome George was discovered motionless in his enclosure, one morning in June 2012. Overnight, George had taken not only ...
Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...
These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...
As a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly professed his love of clean air and water, but he also dismissed ...
In the new BBC series Solar System, physicist Dr Brian Cox explores acid rain, ice mountains and nitrogen glaciers on Earth's ...
A good-governance group is warning of severe consequences if President-elect Donald Trump continues to steer clear of formal transition planning with the Biden administration — inaction that it says i ...
director of NASA's Biological and Physical Sciences Division. Carnell said conducting experiments in a spaceflight ...