The Medusae Fossae Formation of Mars has ice deposits over 2 miles deep, potentially providing vital water resources for ...

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

What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Mars may look like a dry and dusty world, but just beneath its surface lies one of the most surprising discoveries in ...

What if the insides of planets are more complicated than we thought? A new study from scientists at UCLA and Princeton ...

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would ...

Saturn is best known for its rings, which are made of chunks of ice ... Saturn is the least dense planet. Its density is so low that it would float on water – if you could find a bathtub big ...

This is a particularly important measurement because nearly every place on Earth with water also ... evolution of planets,” Vincent Bourrier, one of the scientists who made this discovery ...

The atmospheres of the Jovian planets in our solar system are made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Compounds containing hydrogen, such as water, ammonia, and methane, are also present. Differences ...