planets

Three 'Missing-Link' Planets Discovered Circling Nearby Star

By Jeffrey Kluger

Scientists Discover Massive Ice Sheets on Mars

By Casey Quackenbush

Scientists Have Discovered a New Planet Close to Earth. Here’s Why It's So Exciting

By Jeffrey Kluger

There Might Be an Ocean Under Pluto's Surface

By Kerry Close
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Why You Should Care About Mercury's Transit of the Sun

A rare cosmic event offers a chance to glimpse an oddball world

By Jeffrey Kluger

The Internet Has a Lot of Thoughts About 'Planet 9'

New evidence of the planet was recently released

By Megan McCluskey

5 Ways to Teach Kids (and Grownups) About Science

It's a lot easier than you think to teach the hard stuff. Keeping it fun is a good place to start

By Jeffrey Kluger

How the Sun Helped Murder Mars

The Red Planet could have been a garden world, but something went terribly wrong early in its history. A NASA spacecraft unravels the mystery

By Jeffrey Kluger

500 Planets on One Exquisite Chart

The galaxy is just packed with worlds, and we're discovering more of them all the time

By Jeffrey Kluger

Here are the Most Heart-Stopping Photos of Saturn from the Cassini Mission

As the spacecraft completes its final flyby of Saturn's moon Dione, TIME reflects on the most spectacular images from the mission thus far

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See a Newly-Released Image of Saturn's Moon Dione

Despite the high-resolution images Cassini sent back, Dione remains a mystery to scientists

By Olivier Laurent

Why Pluto Still Deserves Our Love

Pluto is a reminder that there are many worlds out there beyond our own

By Bonnie Buratti / Zocalo Public Square

See Why NASA Is Dying to Visit Jupiter's Moon Europa

"The time has come to seek answers"

By Dan Kedmey

The Mystery of Saturn's Earth-Sized Cyclone, Explained

How a whole lot of little storms converge to produce one of the largest tempests in the solar system

By Jeffrey Kluger

See the 50 Best Images Taken by Hubble

After a quarter of a century on the job, the Hubble Space Telescope has returned some of the most extraordinary cosmic images ever captured

By Jeffrey Kluger

NASA Finds 'Super Earths'

NASA's Kepler mission recently announced the discovery of three earth-like planets existing in a star's "Goldilocks zone."

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There May Be 'Super Earths' at the Edge of Our Solar System

This discovery, if accurate, could completely redraw the map of the Solar System

By Michael D. Lemonick

NASA Ship Ready for Closeup of Pluto

New Horizons will come closest to the dwarf planet on July 14

By Justin Worland

Why the First Comet Landing Matters

This mission may be our most informative one yet

By Arpita Aneja

Scientists Solve One Wacky Moon Mystery

We already knew Miranda, one of Uranus' five major moons, has "one of the strangest and most varied landscapes among extraterrestrial bodies." Now, we (probably) know why

By Michael D. Lemonick
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