According to NASA, the aurora on Earth may last only a few minutes, but on Saturn, it can last for days. In the 2010s, aurora ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

An international planet hunt spearheaded by Monash University researchers has discovered evidence of five new baby planets, ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

So which planets in our solar system have rings? All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these ...

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...

A green glow snapped from Mars marks the first time that an aurora has been observed from the surface of another planet.

A glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering a glimpse into the moon's hidden interior and violent past. Witness live views of Earth from the International Space Station as it ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17 ... Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes: More Earth-Like Planets May Exist Mar. 11, 2025 — A new ...