A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Discoveries about Uranus, the solar system's enigmatic planet, challenge previous assumptions, highlighting the need for ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS didn’t quite live up to the expectations of being the “comet of the century” and during November its ...

Our views of several planets improve this month, most notably that of Jupiter, which approaches its closet approach to Earth ...

Hello everyone and welcome to a great month for planet gazing since you’ll be able to see all five visible planets in your ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...