#planetary science


hey, what's a world like you doing in a solar system like this?

The debate over whether Pluto is a planet, much less what constitutes a planet, is still raging in the scientific community.
hey, what's a world like you doing in a solar system like this?

nasa doesn't care about other planets

Planetary scientists who want to study plants other than Mars and very unhappy with what they see as NASA's obsession with the red planet.
nasa doesn't care about other planets

pardon me, but your hot spot is on sideways

An extrasolar Hot Jupiter called Upsilon Andromedae b has a hot spot in one of the strangest and most awkward possible places in its atmosphere and scientists aren't quite sure why.
pardon me, but your hot spot is on sideways

when a few million years don't mean much…

Scientists issue a correction to the age of the Earth. What does this mean? Pretty much nothing...
when a few million years don't mean much…

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