Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

What is the importance of studying explosive volcanism on Venus? This is what a study published in the Journal of Geophysical ...

Venus spins slowly, yet its upper atmosphere races around the planet at roughly 220 miles per hour, a supercharged jet stream ...

Since early November, Venus has brought an intense, possessive, secretive and intimacy-bolstering vibe to relationships, ...

Currently there is a third “interstellar interloper” now passing through the solar system designated as 3i/ATLAS, for the ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...

The models showed that these strange shapes could form when magma rises and weakens the surface in a “squishy” or partly moving lid. Instead of forming clear, global plates like Earth, Venus likely ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

PUNCH’s observations of comet 3I/ATLAS from Sept. 28 to Oct. 10, 2025, when the comet was between 231 million to 235 million ...