Planets
Venus and Jupiter May Meddle With Earth's Orbit and Climate
In 405,000-year cycles, the tug of nearby planets causes hotter summers, colder winters and drier droughts on our home planet
New Star Map Could Change Everything We Know About the Milky Way
The map includes 1.7 billion stars and is already revealing new details about star evolution and the formation of our galaxy
Five Things to Know About NASA's New Planet-Hunting Satellite
TESS will scan the skies in search of the next crop of exoplanets
Diamonds Trapped in Strange Meteorite Came From Solar System's Earliest Planets
Impurities in the diamonds could only have formed within a planet the size of Mercury or Mars
What's the Difference Between Moths and Butterflies and More Questions From Our Readers
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Purple Haze: Alien Atmospheres Recreated In the Lab
By combining various gases with plasma, researchers are learning about the haze around distant planets
Who Was the First First Lady to Adopt a Cause and More Questions From Our Readers
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Scientists Make Weird Type of Ice Halfway Between Solid and Liquid
The strange form of ice could help explain the odd magnetic fields seen around Uranus and Neptune
Astronomers Spot Signs of Planets Outside the Milky Way
Researchers estimate that more than a trillion planets may lurk beyond our galaxy's bounds
How Does Foucault's Pendulum Prove the Earth Rotates?
This elegant scientific demonstration has been delighting everyday people for nearly 200 years
Citizen Scientists Discover an Unusual Five-Planet Solar System
Users looking through data on Exoplanet Explorers flagged four sub-Neptune planets orbiting a distant star called K2-138
Take a Breathtaking Trip Through the Orion Nebula in NASA's New Video
Combining visible and infrared imagery, the new video takes viewers deep into the star nursery
Asteroid-Sampling Spacecraft Captures Haunting View of Earth in Space
OSIRIS-REx tested its cameras by taking a gorgeous photo of its home planet
Shadows of Saturn's Rings Mess With Its Upper Atmosphere
The Cassini probe's final swoops through the rings found that they impact the planet's ionosphere
Dinosaurs Were Around Before Saturn Had Rings
Data from the Cassini space probe suggests that the rings may be as young as 150 million years old
How AI Found the First Eight-Planet Solar System Beyond Our Own
Google’s neural network sifted through piles of NASA data to find a planet hiding in the spacestacks
What Lurks Below Jupiter’s Great Red Spot?
New results from the Juno spacecraft are helping to unlock the secrets of this centuries-old storm
Chilean Telescope Takes Deepest Look Into the Cosmos Yet
In the process, researchers discovered 72 new galaxies and details on 1,600 more
Three-Mile Wide Asteroid Will Zoom by Earth This December
But it will still be about 6.4 million miles away
Meet Natalie Batalha, the Explorer Who's Searching for Planets Across the Universe
The Kepler mission's project scientist, she has guided the discovery of thousands of planets
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