The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

Celebrate National Geographic Day on 27 January 2025 by honoring the explorers, scientists, and storytellers who uncover the ...

In the fourth Star Trek film, a giant cylinder-shaped space object lingers over Earth’s orbit, emitting sounds of extinct ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a planet so extraordinary it has defied all existing ...

For the past few days, four planets ... Earth. Planets are generally visible a few hours after sunset, after the residual light from the Sun is no more. Clear and cloudless skies are helpful, as is ...