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 ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

"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, ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

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

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