For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet.
Discover more about the Sun's solar cycle and how it impacts us here on Earth, from increased auroras to overwhelmed power ...
We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades - and now scientists have shown why.Observations from Earth have shown Uranus' upper atmosphere ...
Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...
By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...
New research suggests that just before Voyager 2 arrived, Uranus was hit by a rare blast of solar wind from the Sun that ...
It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...