8 planets orbit the Sun. The closest are the four rocky planets, the remaining gas planets inhabit deeper space. The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Night sky observers always factor in the moon to determine the best time for astronomy viewing, especially for the two meteor ...

Our ability to detect planets outside our Solar System is becoming more refined ... and mini-Neptunes (up to 7 or 8 times the size of Earth), orbiting very close to their star, often closer than ...

Freezing cold, dark and with an atmosphere that smells like farts and rotten eggs? Uranus doesn’t sound like somewhere you’d want to call home. But let’s say you did want to move to Uranus. What kind ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within ...

Jupiter, which currently gleams from within the sparkling winter constellation Taurus, reaches opposition with the sun just a ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

See NASA rover's spectacular photos of a "potato eclipse" on Mars as its "asteroid moon" Phobos transited across the sun's ...

As we enter the penultimate month of 2024, NASA has shared some spectacular images from across the universe and closer to ...

The year 2023 was the hottest on record for Earth. April 2024 was Earth’s warmest month and the 11th consecutive month of record-breaking global warmth.