"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

Jupiter is old. Like 4.5 billion years old. It started as a swirling disk of gas and dust that formed into a pretty big ...

Research into Jupiter’s moons shows Io and Europa did not evolve apart but formed with opposite compositions from the ...

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

A pull in the right direction ...

Since this past September, Saturn’s been the best planet to enjoy through even a small telescope, even though its ring system ...

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky as dusk slowly fades. You really should catch the show.

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

Previous research on deep-sea sediments had suggested that Mars might influence Earth's climate, but the magnitude of this ...

From September 2024 to May 2025, a Sun-like star designated J0705+0612 became 40 times dimmer. Researchers describe the ...