"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were already visible in the night sky after dusk this month, but Mercury joined them on Feb. 28. While it's common to see a few planets line up in the ...

Filipinos witnessed a rare celestial spectacle on Friday, February 28, much like everyone else in the world. At the ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

Mercury, the first planet from the sun, is about to be really easy to spot for a short snippet of time in the night sky next ...

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is ...

The task of protecting Earth from these fragments – leftovers from the creation of the solar system 4.6bn years ago – now ...

The spacecraft, launched in 2024, will use gravitational assists from Mars and Earth to reach Jupiter’s moon Europa by 2030.

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between, Arizona State University, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is unlocking the ...

The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...