The changing faces of Pluto| The predominant color of Pluto's surface is thought to result from ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking down methane on the planet's surface, leaving a dark ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean's midnight zone: a glowing "mystery mollusk." ...

The midnight zone begins half a mile below the surface of Monterey Bay, where sunlight can no longer reach. These dark depths ...

The seas make up a majority of our planet and it's teeming with life that we don't get ... Oestreich had years of experience ...

Two European Mars orbiters spied a variety of cryptic surface features poking up through melting ice across the Red Planet's south pole ... features are surprisingly dark compared with their ...

While it only appeared in one Star Wars movie, Geonosis is one of the most important planets in the franchise, setting both ...

For nearly four years now, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars as part of the Mars 2020 mission, traversing across ancient terrain, gathering samples, and investigating ...

This magnetism was strongest in dark regions called sunspots ... its pressure allows sunspots to be cooler than the adjacent ...

While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen water on the planet's surface. Through computer modeling ...

The US space agency suggests that microbes might find a potential home beneath the frozen water on the red planet's surface ... getting exposed to the Sun. "Dark dust absorbs more sunlight ...

Horns high and defiance nigh, the last supermoon of the year rises this week. On Friday, November 15th, the full beaver moon ...