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Planets

The cast wears full body spacesuits on The Ark Episode 206.

Where We Would Send The Ark: The Best Exoplanets Within 25 Light-Years

Finding the most habitable exoplanets in our galactic neighborhood.
By Cassidy Ward 9 min ago
Riddick (Vin Diesel)'s eyes glow white in the dark in Pitch Black (2000).

How to See the 2024 Parade of Planets, and an Even Better One in 2025

Just wait for the right time, get somewhere dark, and look up!
By Cassidy Ward 2 months ago
Sputnik Planitia on Pluto

Pluto Is a Planet Again, but Only in Arizona

And in our hearts.
By Cassidy Ward 4 months ago
Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson sit at a table in a restaurant decorated with Christmas lights.

How Long Is a Day on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?

On Neptune, you'd have to pass down your calendar to your kids.
By Cassidy Ward 10 months ago
Three kids sit in a field in a tent made of sticks in Melancholia (2011).

A Double Moon Collision Could Have Formed Saturn’s Rings

Saturn is what it looks like when world's collide.
By Cassidy Ward 10 months ago
jupiter_earth_scale.jpg

Mea culpa: Planet definitions and Earth clearing its orbit

Would Earth still be considered a planet if it were out in Neptune’s orbit?
By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Artist’s impression of the exoplanet WASP-39b

JWST sees carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time

Discovery of CO2 hints at bigger ones to come.
By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Another view of craters on Mercury by the BepiColombo spacecraft

BepiColombo’s second date with Mercury

A second swingby at the solar system’s smallest planet.
By Phil Plait 2 years ago
core 2

Earth’s core is speeding up and slowing down

Go home, Earth’s core. You’re drunk.
By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) seen by Voyager 2 during flybys in 1986 and 1989. Credit: Uranus: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill; Neptune: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A lack of wind keeps a dull haze layer around Uranus

Uranus is very similar to Neptune, but looks very different.
By Phil Plait 2 years ago
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