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Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about geologically active moons.

Two icy moons of Jupiter, though neighboring and of similar size, exhibit radically different internal structures. A new study suggests this dichotomy stems from their very formation, ...

Explore how mass spectrometry is transforming planetary science – delivering key data from space missions to Titan, Venus and ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

A team of students from the University of Surrey, the University of Portsmouth and the University of Southampton are working to fit equipment they ...