On January 22, 2003, NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft beams its last data transmission back to Earth. Pioneer 10 was NASA's first ...

It is well known that phosphorus is essential to life’s existence. For this reason, there has been a continued interest in ...

What processes are responsible for shaping Jupiter and Saturn’s polar weather? This is what a recent study published in the ...

Small but mighty, the red planet — our celestial neighbor — has made Earth’s climate what it is today. Mars’ gravitational ...

A duo of geophysicists from Washington State University and Virginia Tech has uncovered a plausible pathway for nutrient ...

Observations of the two solar system gas giants have revealed that Jupiter 's north pole hosts a central polar vortex ...

Jupiter and Saturn's different polar storms reveal clues about planet interiors: Saturn has harder bottom than Jupiter.

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ocean of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons and a leading candidate for ...

February brings several special events, including a rare "occultation," and a planetary parade of six planets.

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

This year promises to be a spectacular one for skywatchers, offering an exceptional mix of planetary alignments, eclipses, ...