planets
A Step-by-Step Guide to Terraforming Mars
This video shows the basic steps it would take to make Mars habitable.
Astronomers Use Earth as a Model for Climate Change on Saturn’s Moon
Studying Earth to learn about Titan to learn about Earth.
‘We Were So Surprised’: Researchers Detect Oxygen on Rosetta’s Comet
And they think it comes from before the Solar System was formed.
Astronomers Detect Speeding Mystery Waves in the Debris Disc of a Nearby Star
Based on current knowledge, they're unexplainable.
Here's What '2001: A Space Odyssey' Got Right About the Future
Find out how accurate Kubrick's sci-fi epic was—and wasn't—in Gary Leva's 'VISION OF A FUTURE PASSED: The Prophesy of 2001.'
This Is a Carbon Dioxide Avalanche as Seen From Mars's Orbit
You think water-ice avalanches are scary? Here’s a taste of Mars’s carbon dioxide avalanches.
NASA Funds Five New Missions: To Venus, Psyche, and Beyond
Oh yeah, and a camera that might save the world from deadly asteroid impacts.
NASA Declares 'Mystery Solved' as Evidence of Flowing Water Is Found on Mars
NASA said "there is liquid water today on the surface of Mars," yet a lead author of the paper on the discovery said that the agency made the announcement "a little bit over-the-top."
Filmmakers Built a Scale Model of the Solar System in the Desert
At seven miles in diameter, this is not your basic Science Fair project.
The Space Race for Lunar Funerals
"The time to change the vision of death from the underground to the celestial is now," says Elysium, a company trying to make lunar burials a reality.
A Collision Between Mini-Moons May Have Formed One of Saturn's Outer Rings
A new paper reveals that Saturn’s F ring is probably the fallout of a moonlet fight.