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

If you missed the grand planetary alignment at the end of February, most of the planets aren't going anywhere. Mercury, Venus ...

An international team of Earth and life scientists, hydrologists, chemists, and physicists, has found evidence showing that ...

A team of researchers is investigating young exoplanets that formed around the same time dinosaurs roamed the Earth, ...

The A.D. 536 eruption of an Arctic volcano was so massive that civilizations fell and undying myths took shape. But that's ...

All the day and night sky highlights in March 2025, including a total lunar eclipse, and a deep partial solar eclipse, and a ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth. Last week, the asteroid had a 3.1% probability of ...

Mars may have once had a vast, ice-free ocean, according to new evidence from China’s Zhurong rover. Using ground-penetrating ...

Venus lies bright but low, while Jupiter and Mars dominate. South America and the eastern Pacific Ocean get the best views of ...

This weekend marks the occasion of the 97th annual Academy Awards. This year’s Oscars come on the heels of the January ...

A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals that Mars is red for very much the same reason it may have once been ...

A stunning planet parade is now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are ...