Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn's moon Titan have something important in common. Among all the objects in the solar system, they're the only two with liquids on their ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — New Delhi's air pollution is more severe than previously estimated with particles absorbing atmospheric water vapor leading to particulate matter levels across the city being ...

Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

“Radar images from the Cassini mission reveal elongated streaks on Titan's surface that can extend for hundreds of kilometers,” said Fenton. “Colleagues have proposed that they are windblown deposits ...

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Stargazers across the U.S. and other parts of the world tilted their eyes up into the night sky before dawn to witness the glowing "blood worm moon" staring back at them. The stunning spectacle ...

Short wavelengths are essentially filtered out by the atmosphere over such a protracted distance, and only the longer reds, oranges and yellows remain. The full moon takes on several shades of red ...

"As the light comes past the Earth, it's going through the atmosphere at those edges but it's getting bent, just like it does on that album cover. It's getting bent and the red light hits the moon." ...

There are different types of lunar eclipses, but total lunar eclipses cause the moon to shine red because sunlight must travel through the atmosphere before illuminating the moon. Blue wavelengths ...

Only light that is refracted through Earth's atmosphere manages to reach the moon, with everything outside of the red wavelengths being scattered, leaving the moon looking blood red. "This is due ...