Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing ...

Scientists may have missed the mark when they started referring to Uranus and Neptune as the "ice giant" planets of the solar system decades ago. Like giving a certain short-armed dinosaur a name that ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty of reasons to ...

Two supermoons — occurring when the full moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth — will close out 2026. At about 226,000 miles away, the moon appears larger and brighter than average, ideal ...

Three supermoons will lighten up the night skies in 2026, the stunning result when a full moon inches closer to Earth than ...