Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

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By popular request, some astrological notes on the USA election. Caveats: I don’t like making political ‘predictions’ and ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster. The rocket was fully expendable, ...

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A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

"To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising," said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...

Miranda eventually fell out of sync with one of the other Uranian moons, nullifying the mechanism keeping its interior warm. Researchers don't think Miranda has fully frozen over yet though, as it ...