If the windstorm keeps dwindling, the Great Red Spot could someday disappear — like an earlier spot observed in the 1600s.
This magnetic field encapsulates our planet, sheltering us from damaging energetic threats posed by the cosmos and our own sun.
The robot examined a Mars rock containing organic compounds and “leopard spots.” On Earth, such spots usually come from microbial life.
This space telescope could reveal much about the formation, makeup and evolution of distant exoplanets.
Researchers took a new look at decades-old images from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft. These now suggest volcanic activity is widespread on the planet.
A huge, rocky remnant beneath Pluto’s surface could explain the odd location of Sputnik Planitia — its famous heart-shaped basin.
Humans could live on the fictional planet Arrakis from Dune. But thankfully giant sandworms probably could not.
Future Red Planet residents will need to get online to talk to each other and Earth. But that will require a lot of new tech.
Meteorites are bits of space rock that have crash-landed on Earth — or on another celestial body.
