As August 2023 draws to a close, we find ourselves deep within retrograde season with seven planets in apparent backward motion. The lineup includes inner planets Mercury and Venus as well as those ...

A wealth of new information about Earth’s inner core has surfaced in recent months. Scientists now have evidence that the planet’s innermost layer is changing shape. Scientists who just months ago ...

Deep inside Earth, researchers see signs that the solid inner core may be arranged in multiple chemical layers far below.

Astronomers have probed deeper than before into a planetary system 130 light-years from Earth. The observations mark the first results of a new exoplanet survey called LEECH (LBT Exozodi Exoplanet ...

Six planets planets visible during the eclipse With Earth and the Moon currently on one side of the solar system and the rest of the solar system current on the other side, each of the six naked-eye ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...

Earth is percieved as a rocky planet, what are other planets like? Did you know Mars is cold and that outer planets are really gigantic gas envelopes? What about a liquid planet? Could such a planet ...

Mercury is a planet that just doesn't make sense. It's incredibly small yet hosts a relatively massive core. Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with ...

Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of drills or submersibles, Earth hides a solid metal heart that behaves in ways geophysicists have struggled to explain. New experiments now suggest that a ...

The solar system originated from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust approximately 4.5 billion years ago, with the Sun forming in the central region through nuclear fusion and the planets condensing ...

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