Data from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft shows that the little atmosphere Mars has sputters, ...

Korenaga is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University. He tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about how gold got to Earth:It’s a little surprising to connect to Jun Korenaga, not least ...

If you have the time and are willing to work at it, an eclectic paint job is one of the most budget-friendly ways to make your fence stand out.

We’re back,” I tell the room. It’s January 21, 2029, and I can barely contain my excitement. “America is back!” I expect ...

The newly found cloud, named Eos after the Greek goddess of dawn, is one of the largest known structures in the sky and one ...

Gardening seems like the kind of thing that would only happen on Earth, not high in the sky, but plants can (and do) grow out ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

The dwarf planet's existence also opens the likelihood of many more like it in our solar system waiting to be found. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million years. Uranus and Neptune were next, within 10 million years. The inner ...

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in ...

In 2006, updated research led to Pluto being controversially demoted to dwarf planet status by the International Astronomical Union. The reasoning was that Pluto's location in the far-flung Trans ...