Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Pluto was once the ninth planet of our solar system, until scientists reclassified it in 2006, sparking outrage and debate.

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

Doug McIntyre and David Callaway discuss the potential impact of U.S. tariffs and a trade war with China on the solar ...

The Snow Moon rose on Feb. 12, 2025, marking the end of Chinese New Year and setting up both the beginning of Ramadan and a ...

Monroeville Public Library is holding a three-part children’s series on space, where participants learn fun facts about the ...

According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to the bottom of whether Pluto is a planet, I tracked down planetary scientist ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The eight major planets in our Solar System orbit the sun on the same flat plane but at vastly different speeds. Mercury, being the closest to the sun, completes an orbit in only 88 days ...