Saturn has more than 140 moons, including Titan, Enceladus, and Phoebe. Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and the only moon in our solar system known to have a thick atmosphere and clouds. Saturn orbits ...

The self-described “hippie with hubris” led his own firm in Sausalito and taught students on land he owned in Inverness.

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

The previous record-holder was a rocket designed and built by the Civilian Space Exploration Team, which launched in 2014 to ...

“On Oct. 16, the flight team sent a command to turn on one of the spacecraft’s heaters. While Voyager 1 should have had ample power to operate the heater, the command triggered the fault protection ...

As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like the formation of ozone and the breakup of gas molecules. A new approach for ...

Where there’s one, there may be others. Now researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, have added Earth to the list of planets with rings. Don’t look up, though: This planet’s ring ...

A supercomputer simulation of iron and carbon atoms in Earth’s inner core may explain how a molten ball at the centre of our ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Fellow has joined Tsinghua University’s earth system science department.