Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest gas giant. The most famous…
Planets
Great illusionist One of Mother Nature’s favorite tricks is refraction – bending light as it passes…
Officially, the equinox occurred on September 23, 2023, at 06:50 GMT. But this year it will…
Мars is one of the most accessible planets in the sky because it is close to…
Earth:Weight (m) 5.9726⋅1024 kgAverage density (ρ) 5.5153 g/cm³Average radius 6371.0 km Mars:Mass (m) 6.4171⋅1023 kg or…
Despite its small size and distance from the Sun, Pluto has captured our imaginations and challenged…
The Moon’s south pole shifted 5 degrees from its original position billions of years ago, changing…
Moving in space The reason why the Earth continues its endless rotation, like the endless rotation…
Gas giants such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the solar system are composed primarily…
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…
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…
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…