One of the most interesting discoveries about Earth in the past few decades concerns the Earth's magnetic poles. Paleomagnetic records…
If a solar system is a family, then some planets leave home early. Whether they want to or not. Once…
A team of scientists has just published a paper announcing their discovery of a peculiar chemical in the cloudtops of…
Mars' massive cloud is back. Every year during Mars' summer solstice, a cloud of water ice forms on the leeward…
In 2018, Mars experienced one of its global dust storms, a phenomenon seen nowhere else. As science would have it,…
Our closest stellar neighbour is Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf star about 4.2 light years away from us. It's…
The InSight lander has been on the surface of Mars for about a year, and a half dozen papers were…
The NASA and DLR InSight lander has been on Mars for over a year now. The mission has faced significant…
Earth and Pluto don't have much in common. Earth is a vibrant, living world, whereas Pluto is cold, distant and…
Astronomers have discovered another candidate exoplanet orbiting our neighbor, Proxima Centauri. A paper announcing these results was just published in…