Recent research explaining why Mercury is so dark raises many new questions.
- Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
Great discoveries await.
New research gives a clue about what happens when there are two habitable worlds in the same solar system.
Study pinpoints some of the chemical signs of microbial life on Enceladus. The study could in part be corroborated by Cassini’s flyby of the moon.
Pluto’s moon Charon seems to have had a violent past, with icy volcanoes leaving huge fractures.
De l’eau sur Mars ? Encore ? Mission après mission, les scientifiques accumulent les indices d’eau sur la planète rouge. La dernière découverte annoncée par la Nasa apporte de nouveaux éléments.
New research suggests that salty water exists on Mars in the summer months. But that wouldn’t be the first time we hear of water on the red planet. So what’s new and what isn’t?
From a mysterious haze to strange nitrogen snowfall, the latest pictures of Pluto pose many new questions.
Ice is everywhere in the solar system and there may even be liquid water beneath the surface of a number of planets. But could we ever get to it?
Lack of impact craters intrigues space experts who say it suggests the dwarf planet may be geologically active.
Will the best ever images of Pluto reveal something that presents a case for planethood?
After ten years in space NASA probe will get up close and personal with Mercury a final time.
Two big eruptions have caused pyroclastic flows and high-altitude ash clouds over South America.
Approaching Ceres, the Dawn spacecraft reveals the dwarf planet in colour for the first time.
More evidence that planet Earth has gone through various frozen phases.
Around 60 volcanoes erupt in the average year. On any particular day, there are usually about 20 volcanoes erupting somewhere in the world. Naturally, they can’t all make headlines. But when there are…
Exciting as it is (and it is incredibly exciting), the Rosetta mission is the latest in a history of comet exploration that has added to our knowledge of these icy dirtballs. Comets are usually just a…
The year’s biggest “supermoon” will rise on August 10. Like last time, there will be many pictures trying to showoff the “over-sized” moon. But I don’t think it deserves so much attention. At 7.09pm BST…
A new, planet-like body has been found on the outer edges of the solar system. This object, called 2012VP113, is the second body of its class found since the identification of the dwarf planet Sedna in…
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