#Planet

Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury hosts water ice at its poles. Now scientists may know how it got there.

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the events that formed them over just one Mercurian day

After last year's Planet Zoo 2 announcement, Frontier has refreshed - not especially subtly - the series' YouTube page, suggesting more details are on the way.

Hot on the heels of Jurassic World Evolution 3, Frontier Developments is releasing Planet Zoo 2 later this year, and totally new types of animals are in.

The familiar concept of a planetary core, a small, dense metallic heart we take for granted, may be the exception rather than the rule for exoplanets.

A giant planet nearly 700 light-years away has a bizarre daily weather cycle where mineral clouds appear every morning and vanish by nightfall.…

Key takeaways: Almost all climate scientists say the planet is warming, and that this is caused mostly by human activity. But a far smaller share of the American public has shared this view over the last decade.…

There's a planet out there called LHS 3844 b, orbiting a star about 48 light-years away. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) found it in 2018 when the planet transited across the face of its star.…

Enigmatic crownlike surface formations on Venus hold keys to understanding our twin planet’s deep interior. Or so says a new paper presented at the recent European Geosciences Union 2026 general assembly in Vienna.

From Aljazeera RSS Feed: Nakba: Jewish voices are challenging the stories Israel tells about itself

At the end of Subnautica 2's prologue, fear has already set in - and I haven't even reached its new ocean planet, Prote…

Perseverance has travelled almost 26 miles, or 42 km. That's just shy of a marathon, which is 26.2 miles or 42.195 kilometers. Along the way, it's abraded and studied 62 rocks and collected 27 rock cores. And it's not done yet.

Jupiter, the gravitational behemoth that makes up a lion’s share of our solar system’s planetary content, is much more complicated than ever previously thought. Or so say leaders from NASA’s highly successful Juno mission.

She said the conversation went downhill from there, alleging the staff member did not address her concerns and instead “repeatedly” called her “transphobic” before she decid…

A satellite company popular among journalists issued an indefinite blackout in the Middle East. Open-source investigators got to work—and challenged official narratives.

My Paper Straw vs. The Missiles We were asked to save the planet one sip at a time. Nobody asked the defense budget. I have been carrying a reusable tote bag since 2019. I separate my recycling. I …

The answer is a gigantic “hydraulic jump,” and researchers believe similar phenomena may occur on planets like Mars.

There's so little we know about circumbinary planets—planets that orbit two stars instead of one—that they can feel like the stuff of fantasy.…