The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds habitable ...

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.

American space agency NASA announced the Dragonfly quadcopter that will be sent to Titan will target the Selk crater on ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Saturn will burn in Aries from May 24th until September 1, 2025, when the planet will retrograde back into Pisces for a few months before returning to the cardinal fires of the ram from February 14, ...

Following the much-ballyhooed “planet parade” this winter, the planets have been gradually dipping below the horizon, ...