The term 'habitable zone' is a broad definition that serves a purpose in our age of exoplanet discovery. But the…
There's a link between Earth's ocean salinity and its climate. Salinity can have a dramatic effect on the climate of…
ESA's Cheops mission has been studying an ultra-hot exoplanet around a nearby star and discovered its metallic clouds reflect about…
NASA’s Apollo program most notably explored the Moon. But it also helped us study the Earth as well, as it…
Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth went through two episodes of severe glaciation. These two episodes—the Sturtian and the…
Radar evidence shows that geysers on Enceladus are ejecting water that turns to snow. The snow not only falls back…
During its recent flyby of Earth, astronomers used the Goldstone radar antenna to create a remarkable series of images of…
There’s darkness out there in the cold corners of the solar system. And we’re not talking about a Lovecraftian darkness,…
[/caption] It's referred to as the "Goldilock's Zone", but this area in space isn't meant for sleepy or hungry bears…
Astronomers define the reflectivity of an object in space using a term called albedo. This is the amount of electromagnetic…