Solar wind power likely governs Uranus' thermosphere temperature
Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth at Over 29,000 mph
The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...
Astronomers discover ultra-dense 'super-Earth' with outer companion offering clues about its formation
An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...
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If The Sun's Gravity Is So Strong, How Come All The Planets Are Moving Away From It?
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...
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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years
Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.
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The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
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What’s the Roundest Object in the Universe?
For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...
The 20 greatest Roman films of all time
Are you not entertained? Films set in Ancient Rome deliver spectacle, silliness – and lots of men in leather skirts. These ...
Take a moment, remove those leaves. It's a lot more important than you think
NASA is undergoing another round of layoffs. And once again, it's the space agency's famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...
After raising nearly half a billion, ABL Space pivots from launch vehicles to missiles
Significant changes are coming to ABL Space Systems. The leader of the seven year old startup took to social media last night ...
The rings of Saturn are going to disappear in a few months. Here's what's happening
Saturn will undergo a drastic change in the coming months, at least as the planet is seen from Earth. Here's what's going to ...
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Planet or Plastic?
Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...