Planets
New NASA Images Shed Light on Ceres’ Bright Spots
Yet the dwarf planet serves up fresh mysteries
Five New Things We Learned About Pluto This Week
A new set of studies paints Pluto as a weirder planet than scientists once thought
A Giant Planetary Smashup May Have Turned Venus Hot and Hellish
A collision with a large object may have triggered changes deep inside the planet that ultimately affected its atmosphere
Explore the Magnificent and Mysterious Surface of the Moon in Pictures
At the National Air and Space Museum, beautiful images show how the moon's pockmarked surface is rife with mystery
Looking for Life Beyond Earth? Watch Out for Steam Bath Planets
Simulations show that water and CO2 can be a surprisingly deadly combo on some unfortunate worlds
Mysterious Martian 'Cauliflower' May Be the Latest Hint of Alien Life
Unusual silica formations spotted by a NASA rover look a lot like structures formed by microbes around geysers on Earth
There Are Probably Way More Earth-Like Exoplanets Than We Imagined
A new analysis indicates that 22 percent of Sun-like stars may harbor planets roughly the size of Earth in their habitable zones
“Earth-Like” Exoplanets May Actually Be Mini-Neptunes
Many newly discovered exoplanets may not be able to shed their dense hydrogen atmospheres, making them unsuitable for life
Should Pluto’s Planet Status Be Reinstated? Not Yet
Discovery of a fifth moon circling Pluto has some questioning where the "dwarf planet" category still applies to this faraway member of the Solar System
A Planet Spotted As It Begins To Form
Scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii have found what may be a protoplanet, the youngest planet ever found
Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know
Albert Einstein called Emmy Noether a "creative mathematical genius"
What Did You Do in College? These Students Discovered a Planet
That’s right. These three undergraduates from Leiden University in the Netherlands discovered a planet, and not just any old planet
An Interview with Rob Irion, Author of "The Planet Hunters"
Rob Irion spoke with Amy Crawford about his article, "The Planet Hunters"
Being There
Robotic spacecraft allow geologists to explore other planets as if they were on-site
Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Planet. It's a Very Large Ball of Ice!
It's Pluto, with its moon, Charon
Planets Around Other Stars Are Hot Hot Hot
Suddenly we find that lots of nearby stars have their own planets, even though so far we can "see" only the giants
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