"Europe needs its own eyes, and Sweden is leading the way by rapidly securing its own comprehensive space capability," said Will Marshall, CEO and Co-Founder of Planet Labs. "By leveraging Planet's ...

From the outside, Earth doesn't seem to have a lot going on in the hydrogen department… but that doesn't mean it's completely ...

For life to develop on a planet, certain chemical elements are needed in sufficient quantities. Phosphorus and nitrogen are ...

Pesticides are becoming more toxic and just about every country is using more of them year after year, despite a UN target to ...

SpaceX (SPACE) seeks U.S. approval for a constellation of a million satellites that could function as orbital data centers. Read more here.

Snapshots from six computer simulations illustrating the distinct tectonic regimes of terrestrial planets, including the newly discovered “episodic-squishy lid” regime. This framework provides a new ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Silicon monoxide gas detected by JWST signals the sublimation and recondensation of silicate dust into crystalline minerals. These minerals combine into pebbles, the earliest building blocks of ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

What are the lengths of time it takes for Venus, Mars, and Mercury to orbit the Sun? How far away are Venus, Mars, and Mercury? In the early 1600s, Johannes Kepler used observations of the motions of ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided several years ago that they needed to come up with a definition for a planet (for use with the objects in our Solar System). The IAU has various ...