Tag: Solar System
What you need to know about this year’s winter solstice and...
William Teets, Vanderbilt University
Editor’s note: Dr. William Teets is the director of Vanderbilt University’s Dyer Observatory. In this interview, he explains what does and...
What moons in other solar systems reveal about planets like Neptune...
Bradley Hansen, University of California, Los Angeles
What is the difference between a planet-satellite system as we have with the Earth and Moon, versus a...
Discovered: a huge liquid water lake beneath the southern pole of...
Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland
We now know that there is permanent liquid water on Mars, according to a paper published today in the...
Rarity of Jupiter-like planets means…
Rarity of Jupiter-like planets means planetary systems exactly like ours may be scarce
Stefano Meschiari, University of Texas at Austin
Is our little corner of the...