Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends on your definition of a moon. But this is likely just "the tip of the iceberg," Edward Ashton, an astronomer ...

Comparing that data to estimates about our Solar System's trajectory ... "If you shift continents or interrupt ocean currents, you get climate shifts from that, so I’m very skeptical you ...

Our solar system passed through a vast wave of gas and ... Astronomers have previously discovered large ocean-like waves of stars, gas and dust in the Milky Way that undulate up and down over ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Image During a partial solar eclipse, the Earth, moon and sun are imperfectly aligned. Credit...Ian Willms for The New York Times On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, people in northern and ...

Every other solar system planet was named for a Greek or Roman ... These bodies of water contain 97 percent of Earth's volcanoes and the mid-ocean ridge, a massive mountain range more than 40,000 ...

Primordial helium from the beginning of the solar system may be stuck inside ... of helium-3 leaks out of mid-ocean ridges where the crust is pulling apart and out of volcanic hotspots that ...