Astronomy on MSN
Why does the travel time from Earth to Mars vary?
I've read that the planned crewed Mars missions will take six months or two years to arrive. Which is it? Could a longer trip ...
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Imagining Earth with rings like Saturn
Jupiter.... Uranus.... Saturn... Earth? Sadly, Earth didn't make it onto the list of the Solar System's ringed planets. If it ...
How can Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, influence its much larger parent planet? This is what a recent study published in the ...
Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...
February holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky. See what's happening in the skies over North Texas this ...
NASA scientists are baffled by an unusual hexagon structure on Saturn, first spotted in the 1980s, that has been there ever ...
Celestial spectacle will be at its most impressive on 28 February, when Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align across the sky ...
Insane Curiosity on MSN
Why Saturn is practically off-limits to space exploration
Saturn may be one of the most beautiful planets in the solar system, but reaching it is brutally difficult. Sitting 1.3 ...
But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN
Scientists identify ‘space battery’ powering Earth’s northern lights display
The aurora borealis has been the ultimate atmospheric tease for ages. We knew what ...
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...
New satellite-based analysis explains how energy carried by Alfvén waves moves from Earth’s magnetosphere into the atmosphere to generate auroral light emissions.
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