Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology By analyzing the movements of ...

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...

Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the ...

We hear music everywhere we go in the natural world, to the point its consumption is second nature. Maybe the universe is ...

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

A fascinating new study has shed light on the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, two of the least explored planets ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the ...

Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a computer model that can detect liquid water on the moons of Uranus by ...