Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...

Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...

In his lecture, Levine noted the United States is planning a human mission to Mars that may begin as early as 2035. The journey will take seven months and over 250 million miles each way.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, often originating from the Sun, become trapped in a ...

The moon will appear to take bites out of the sun this weekend during a partial solar eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere — ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

The Sun, the main source of light and energy, is the brightest object in our solar system, shining on and lighting up all other celestial bodies. Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, ...