Venus, Earth's closest planetary neighbor, possesses a deceptively similar size and composition but hides a surface hot enough to melt lead under an atmosphere with crushing pressure 90 times greater ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

Characteristics: Quasi-moons can range in size from 30 feet to 1,000 feet. They experience gravitational tugs from Earth, allowing them to slide in and out of shared orbits. Discovery: Astronomers ...

Our Sun, that steady burning ball of gas that has faithfully illuminated Earth for billions of years, is slowly but ...

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on exoplanets.

November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the largest and most extensive planetary-defense exercise in human history — an international ...