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The different types of rocks found in our solar system besides Earth.
That's one mystery about the Moon we can take off of the list.
These moon facts will make you see our mesmerizing satellite in a different way.
When asteroids hit the Earth, they leave behind spectacular geological landmarks.
Jupiter is at least twice as massive as all other planets in the solar system combined. But that’s not all…
Over 70 years as humanity has begun to explore space, we have upon occasion, turned our gaze back to our own world, producing images that highlight our place in the vastness of space.
The decision to demote Pluto to a dwarf planet was arbitrary rather than being based on science.
The moon isn't just a pretty face.
The Asteroid Belt, the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, nd the Oort Cloud are the motherships.
At the edge of the Sun's gravitational influence, there's a cloud of ice and rock. Probably.
The gas giant has a large following worthy of its gargantuan mass.
Only 12 astronaut boots touched down on the lunar surface. But more are about to arrive soon (and they likely won’t be American).
You could fit nearly one million Earth-sized planets and the sun isn't even that big of a star.
I have it on very good authority that it's more than 20 degrees, for sure.
There's more to the Red Planet than you think.
It's part boring, part interesting, and mostly geology.
The Juno mission has revealed surprising new things about Jupiter’s structure and atmosphere.
The key to Neptune's blue marble apperance lies in its methane-rich atmosphere.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the hottest of them all?
They're big
It isn't hyperbole to say, the survival of our species may depend on a sucessful method of preventing an asteroid impact.
The Sun has enough hydrogen fuel to last it another 5 billion years. However, life on Earth might become extinct as early as 1 billion years from now.
The meteorite only lives as it is falling.
Spooky!
It's not exactly accurate, but it's a dazzling display.
An overview of some of the most important natural satellites in our solar system. They're quite a few.
Truly one of mankind's great successes.
Two planets are better than one. Here's everything you need to know about Mars terraformation.
It's all about the conservation of angular momentum.
It's because of all that iron-rich dust, but it's not clear how it got there.
What's the Moon made from, anyway?
The Cassini shuttle is a flagship sent to Saturn to conduct observations of Saturn and its moons. The mission started 18 years ago, and since then Cassini has sent over some mind-bending pictures. Here are just some of them, courtesy of NASA. Rhea and Titan Here we see Rhea, the second-largest moon of Saturn passing in […]
The Apollo program returned 380.05 kg of lunar rocks and soil, and most of the samples are stored at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility. The samples of rocks, breccias, and regolith were polished into thin sections, allowing for optical geologic studies to be performed on them.
Iapetus is the third largest moon of Saturn, with a radius of about 42% that of our moon, and a mass that weighs up to only 2.5%. But Iapetus has a number of shocking features, unique throughout the entire solar system. The Walnut Moon This is the equatorial ridge that runs along the center of […]
As you may or may not know, we’ve launched a new section of our website: Science Questions and Answers – a section aimed at you guys, where you can ask all questions science-related, and share your knowledge with others. We’re still in the beta version, but please, feel free to ask away – we’ll do […]
We’ve all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive and kind of uninteresting. Our planet deserves so much more! Black holes Well, it seems the more we understand things about black holes, the more we find out things we don’t know, and the more […]
