When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows the moon Ariel orbiting the ice giant Uranus. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASA Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, may be hiding in … Read more
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you would like an expert to answer, please send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is it possible that we could ever make Mars like Earth? – Tyla, age 16, Mississippi When I was in high school, my biology teacher showed our class … Read more
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you would like an expert to answer, please send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is it possible that we could ever make Mars like Earth? – Tyla, age 16, Mississippi When I was in high school, my biology teacher showed our class … Read more
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you would like an expert to answer, please send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is it possible that we could ever make Mars like Earth? – Tyla, age 16, Mississippi When I was in high school, my biology teacher showed our class … Read more
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you would like an expert to answer, please send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is it possible that we could ever make Mars like Earth? – Tyla, age 16, Mississippi When I was in high school, my biology teacher showed our class … Read more
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you would like an expert to answer, please send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is it possible that we could ever make Mars like Earth? – Tyla, age 16, Mississippi When I was in high school, my biology teacher showed our class … Read more
The search for habitability elsewhere in the universe may well be reduced to the search for water. We have not yet found life forms that would decouple this substance from our concept of “life” itself, so we have no choice but to accept the cosmic water trail as our pole star in the search for … Read more
Scientists may have identified a molecule that played a key role in robbing Venus of its water and turning this planet into the barren, hellish world we see today. Venus is often called “Earth’s twin” because both planets are approximately the same size and density; they are also both rocky planets in the inner solar … Read more
Today, the atmosphere of our neighboring planet Venus is as hot as a pizza oven and drier than the driest desert on Earth – but it wasn’t always that way. Billions of years ago, Venus had as much water as Earth does today. If that water was once liquid, Venus might once have been habitable. … Read more
Today, the atmosphere of our neighboring planet Venus is as hot as a pizza oven and drier than the driest desert on Earth – but it wasn’t always that way. Billions of years ago, Venus had as much water as Earth does today. If that water was once liquid, Venus might once have been habitable. … Read more
