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Scientists say they’ve seen ammonia emitted from penguin poop result in the creation of fog. The clouds created may be ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, ...

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...

Our solar system’s origin story spans billions of years and involves clouds of gas, cosmic collisions, and planetary ...

Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year ...

American space agency NASA announced the Dragonfly quadcopter that will be sent to Titan will target the Selk crater on ...

This week, new developments in autonomous and high-speed aviation are signaling a dramatic shift in the future of military ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission targets a near-Earth quasi-moon and a rare comet, aiming to return samples and redefine planetary science in one bold journey.

Volcanic ash from eruptions can reshape cirrus clouds, forming giant ice crystals and altering how Earth traps heat in the ...

Astronomers have calculated that the gas giant Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now, based on the odd orbits of two ...