Gas giants such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the solar system are composed primarily…
Solar system
Eris is the most distant dwarf planet discovered to date, located beyond the orbit of Neptune.…
The new moon is the phase of the moon at which its position on the celestial…
Scientists have spotted 12 more moons around Jupiter, adding to an already huge number that only…
According to NASA, one of the driest regions on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile,…
The boring Kuiper Initiative In 1955, astronomer Gerard Kuiper approached his colleagues with the idea of…
Clavius Crater water Clavius is one of the largest and oldest craters on the Moon. Located…
The Moon and Sun appear to be the same size when viewed from Earth because, although…
Jupiter, which is far from the Sun, would logically be cold, but its upper atmosphere is…
“Sweeper” of the Solar System Jupiter is the most massive planet in the solar system and…
Five asteroids, one the size of a house and two the size of an airplane, will…
What do we observe when approaching Jupiter? After traveling 248 million miles (400 million kilometers), you…
The theory goes that Jupiter pushes dangerous comets and asteroids out of their deadly orbits so…
A few salty water droplets that hit the rack of NASA’s Phoenix lander as it landed…
The average distance to the Moon is 384,403 km. Why “average”? Because the Moon revolves around…
The first photographs of the surface of Venus were taken by the Soviet Venera-9 spacecraft. “Venera-9”…
The planet’s crust is solid because it is composed of rocks and minerals that have solidified…
The thickness of the crust of Venus and the Earth differs significantly. Venus has a crust…
Planet’s crust is solid because it is composed of rocks and minerals that have solidified and…
Assuming that everything on the enlarged Earth scaled in the same way, things would be 25…
What do the rings of Jupiter look like? Jupiter’s ring system was the third to be…
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have rings. When Theia crashed into the Earth, the Earth also…
For more than three centuries, Saturn was thought to be a ringed planet. Only in 1977,…
So far, only 12 people have walked on the moon. Earth’s natural satellite is at a…
How does the earth rotate? The earth rotates the way it rotates. One revolution in 86,400…
Neptune has 14 known moons. Satellites are divided into two main groups: regular and irregular satellites.…
With an average temperature of minus 234 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 145 degrees Celsius), Jupiter is cold…
Bombardment from space Most space objects penetrating the Earth’s atmosphere are quite modest in size. According…
Objects in space have been repeatedly reclassified. Pluto has been removed from the list of planets.…
Rings of Saturn. What is this? The radius of the rings of Saturn is 480 thousand…