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Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

What is space weather, what causes it, and how does it affect humans? Physicist Robyn Millan, who co-chaired a recent ...

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

As India prepares for its upcoming Budget, it is crucial for the country to solidify its position in the global energy ...

ON January 25, 2025, a rare planetary alignment will be visible in the night sky. Six planets—Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are visible this month in a 'planetary parade'. Dr Becky Smethurst at the University of Oxford explains what to look out for ...

What's in store for our wonky little family of planets in the future is unknown. But there's a fleeting chance the Solar System may one day find itself even more bent out of shape than it is today.

Such an encounter, the team says, would be rare, but not infeasible. Bolstering their argument, they point to the conditions present in an open star cluster—in other words, the very sort of ...

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...