NASA has found something on Uranus and Neptune. The ice giants of the solar system have long been enigmas for science.

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

A parade in the sky is happening throughout January. Six planets—including Venus, Saturn, Neptune, Mars, Uranus, and ...

Atmospheric chemistry is the study of the components of planetary atmospheres, particularly that of the Earth. It specifically looks at the composition of planetary atmospheres and the reactions ...

Each planet has its own unique characteristics, such as size, composition, and atmosphere. For instance, Uranus is known as the green planet due to its methane-rich atmosphere. But do you know ...

Consider the sun, the star we are most familiar with: We are still in the dark regarding the blistering heat of our star's outer atmosphere ... OK, enough Uranus jokes. We're serious about ...

His findings revealed not only that amateurs could map ammonia in Jupiter’s atmosphere, but also that the clouds are located too deep in the planet’s warm atmosphere to be composed of ammonia ice. By ...

The study also finds that the time it takes for water to flow through plants (referred to as transit or turnover time) and return to the atmosphere is among the fastest in the global water cycle ...

That descriptive term came about because the moon can pick up a reddish hue during an eclipse due to the way sunlight filters through Earth's atmosphere. NASA keeps a list of lunar eclipses ...

A Methane-Rich Atmosphere: Uranus’s blue-green color is a result of the absorption of red light by methane in its atmosphere. This atmosphere also contains hydrogen and helium. A Weak Magnetic ...

At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last three years. See and hear for yourself how the ...

Such a mission would help us unravel the nature of Uranus’s magnetosphere and its interaction with the planet’s atmosphere, moons and rings, and with the solar wind. “Of course, modern instrumentation ...