When packing for a vacation on Kepler 16-b, it’s good to remember the sunscreen. It does, after all, have two suns. OK, so a long weekend visiting a planet 1,200 trillion miles away, may not be a ...

It may look like a drop sheet from the studio of a very prolific (and clumsy) artist - but, in fact, it is a geological map of our humble moon. The brightly coloured survey maps are based on data ...

A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.

A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded funding from NASA to create an interstellar map that could lead to more accurate observations of planets located outside our solar system — known as ...

The US National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System keeps track of the world’s weather. It’s an incredibly valuable repository of information, but its data, shown in DayGlo charts peppered with ...