There is no need to overcomplicate things: a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival. That ...

Learn key facts about the Moon: from its significant distance and relative size compared to Earth to its distinctive color ...

This gravity disparity is largely due to that equatorial bulge creating non-uniform distances from points on the planet's surface to center of the Earth, and to the fact that the Earth spins.

Narrator: As the solar system grew, four rocky planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, were created closest to the Sun. Made of rocks and metals, they have solid surfaces and a central core of ...

It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet. Mercury is slightly larger than our Moon - 15,329 kilometres around its equator. Its radius, the distance from the ...

The planet has a swirling storm twice the width of Earth that's raged for at least the last 150 years called the Great Red Spot.

All five planets will be spread out along the ecliptic—the plane of the solar system upon which all planets orbit closely to. Be outside looking east at around 5:00 a.m. and you’ll see Jupiter ...