Planet News
Good News For The Search For Life, The Trappist System Might Be Rich In Water
Scientists have been hard at work trying to determine the densities of the TRAPPIST-1 planets, and it looks like water…
Mars Had Way More Water on its Surface Than We Thought
A new study suggests that Mars had a much larger ocean than previously thought. However, we can't understand how the…
Four Candidates For Planet 9 Located
A concentrated three-day search for a mysterious, unseen planet in the far reaches of our own solar system has yielded…
Get Ready For The >100 Planet Solar System
If a new definition of planet is adopted by the International Astronomical Union, our Solar System could be home to…
Planet 9 Can’t Run Forever. Two Asteroids Give Up Some Clues
Last year, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin found indirect evidence for the existence of a large planet in…
Will You Be The Discoverer Of Planet 9?
Citizen science projects are a great way for anyone to be involved in the scientific process. Average, everyday folks have…
JPL Predicts Mars’ Global Dust Storm To Arrive Within Weeks
A NASA researcher thinks he has figured out how to predict global dust storms on Mars.
Astronomers Discover Exoplanet With Triple Sunrises and Sunsets
Astronomers discover the first exoplanet orbiting within a triple star system and manage to obtain a direct image of the…
New Composite Image Of Saturn’s Polar Vortex Mesmerizes
A new image from Cassini shows Saturn's southern polar vortex in striking detail.
Boiling Water Is Carving Martian Slopes
Surface features on Mars may have been caused by boiling water.