planets

Yes, we live down there on that little wee planet called Earth! The sun is quite a bit larger than Earth, isn't it? When we think of an ant, we think they are small, but then take into consideration a tardigrade, the little micro-animal water bear which I recently posted about here. Imagine a...

While searching for Planet Nine, a hypothetical massive planet beyond Pluto, astronomers have come across a dwarf planet which they’ve named The Goblin. It’s said to be under the gravitational influence of a giant unseen object, providing further evidence of Planet Nine. (Or should we just call...

This photo was captured by NASA's Horizons Spacecraft this year. Here's an excerpt from an article talking about the Spacecraft. "Three billion miles from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, moving at speeds that would get it from New York to Los Angeles in about four minutes, was pointing...

If you missed them, here are recent photos taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter.

Here's a color-enhanced photograph of a very large storm in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere. It was taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on October the 24th during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant planet. At the time Juno was about 6,281 miles (10,108 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds on...

laron submitted a new article. Beauty Of Jupiter — The Perijove Passage From The Juno Spacecraft The gas giant Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. The beauty of Jupiter can be seen as stripes and swirls, which are actually cold windy clouds composed of ammonia and water. (The...