Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.

Understanding exoplanet evolution could help solve the mystery of the 'hot Neptune desert.' As astronomers delve deeper into ...

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

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.

UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. candidate Sagnick Mukherjee has received one of the most sought-after postdoctoral awards in the field: the prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. In its March 27 ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

Unlike a total solar eclipse, part of the sun is still visible during a partial solar eclipse, so there is no darkening of ...

The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...