Mars is half the size of Earth and has only a tenth of its mass, but a new study shows that even such a "lightweight" planet ...
The winter solstice doesn’t coincide with the latest sunrise or the earliest sunset. Those actually occur about two weeks ...
Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, was skeptical when he read recent studies that showed ...
The team analyzed borehole data from several wells using natural gamma-ray logs, core observations, and geochemical ...
Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...
Researchers uncover how Mars affects Earth’s orbit, offering new insight into the planetary forces behind ice ages.
Why did the ice ages occur? If you need a scapegoat, a new study by Stephen Kane of UC Riverside suggests pointing the finger ...
A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Mercury is happening on the opposite side of the solar system to where Earth is, ...
A January 2026 Earth–Sun alignment allows measurements of the opposition surge from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS using ...