Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

Naicker Scientific's SonoChem device, using microwaves and ultrasound, won the Aqualunar challenge by purifying water from ...

Netflix's movies offer an escape from reality, and the best options let you escape the planet's atmosphere in the process. These space movies run the gamut from quiet introspection to unfathomable ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, ...

"As the light comes past the Earth, it's going through the atmosphere at those edges but it's getting bent, just like it does on that album cover. It's getting bent and the red light hits the moon." ...

involving scanning Neptune's moon Triton to see if it has a subsurface ocean. This presented a challenge, because of Triton's intense ionosphere, which is the last layer of the atmosphere before ...

The moon will appear red during the eclipse, as sunlight is filtered through Earth's atmosphere. Set a middle-of-the-night alarm and turn your eyes to the sky! There’s a total lunar eclipse that ...

The moon will appear red during the eclipse, as sunlight is filtered through Earth's atmosphere. Set a middle-of-the-night alarm and turn your eyes to the sky! There’s a total lunar eclipse that ...