Rhiannon at Cakecrumbs loves science and baking. One would have to, to devote the time, skill, and artistry necessary to this Jupiter cake she made. Icing the atmosphere alone took eight hours! But that's not the extent...

Temperatures at the dark craters of the...  ...n There's Ice in Mercury Of all the planets in the Solar System, Mercury is the closest to th...  ...st is tall, check out the Olympus Mons on the Red Planet . At about 14 miles (22 km) tall, it's three times...  ...r ice with trace silica material - t...

Image: ESO/L. Calcada/N.Risinger (skysur...  ...fiction classics, actually has an Earth-like planet : Alpha Centauri is one of the br...  ...ury astronomers have speculated about planets orbiting these bodies, the closest possible...  ...and have revealed a tiny, but real, signal fro...

If you think Tatooine is pretty sunny with...  ...ith its two suns, this newly discovered planet is doubly so: Astronomers have f...  ...bly so: Astronomers have found a planet whose skies are illuminated by four d...  ...The discovery was made by volunteers using th...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...anymore. And besides, Uranus is possibly the best planet ever. Really. LOOKING AT URANUS Gaze for a...  ...ose names (in the Roman versions) grace the other planets , excepting Saturn, who was the most important Tit...  ...mans didn't know it existe...

Astronomers studying exoplanets have found one wit...  ...odd system. It orbits two stars! There have been planets discovered that orbit one of two binary stars, or...  ...is one actually orbits around two real stars. The planet is named Kepler-16, meaning it was discovered by...  ...eady nicknamed it Tattooine,...

No, that's not a new planet discovered by NASA. Rather, it's part of...

by Meg Muckenhoupt, Lexington, Massachusetts,...  ...ery spherical, round at the girth, Just like the planets Mars, Venus, and Earth I’ll just have to name...  ...��ll just have to name it. Because, after all, A planet ’s a planet no matter how small.” “Humpf!” h...

Our pal Geekosystem has gone into a lot of trouble...  ...gone into a lot of trouble ranking the 10 coolest planets of the Sci-Fi world. Listed at number 4 is the Mo...  ...world. Listed at number 4 is the Mogo, a sentient planet :We have Alan Moore to thank for Mogo, the sentien...  ...e have Alan Moore to than...

Astronomers are identifying more and more exoplane...  ...onomers are identifying more and more exoplanets, planets that exist in other star systems besides ours. Of...  ...ily deep oceans, surrounding a rocky core. The planet ’s atmosphere and precise composition remain a m...  ...of the same elements foun...