Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Saturn’s rings, which are primarily made of ice and rocks, will disappear from view this weekend. The phenomenon, dubbed ...

Scientists are confident Mars was once abundant with water, as seen in massive flood-carved channels, ancient river valleys, ...

An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...

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

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet ...

A new analysis suggests the onset of the next ice ... made their prediction based on a new interpretation of the small changes in Earth's orbit of the sun, which lead to massive shifts in the ...

At 7.8 kilometers, or roughly 5 miles from end to end, the skateway is the world’s largest ice rink and one whose ... something that could make any refrigeration pipes along the bottom of ...