High above Earth's poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could be visible, but not all can be seen by the naked eye.

All seven of Earth's neighboring planets will be visible as the sun sets this week. Here's everything to know about the event.

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Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by ocean. If we were to make an elevation average of the Earth’s surface, we’d ...

The SPHEREx mission will image 1 billion galaxies, 100 million stars, and 10,000 asteroids – and help to answer some of the biggest scientific mysteries.

Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system.

An international team of astronomers have been able to probe the atmosphere of an exoplanet like never before. Exoplanet ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...