The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...

Gaia-4b is a planet orbiting the star called Gaia-4, around 244 light-years away. Gaia-4b is about twelve times more massive ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

The article humorously imagines how planets would describe themselves if they were dating profiles. Each planet has a unique ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

2025 is set to be an amazing year of space missions as many moon landings are planned and significant test launches.

Since completing its primary science objectives in orbit of Jupiter, Juno has been conducting flybys of the Jovian moons Io, ...

Known as the "Parade of Planets," the celestial event will feature appearances from Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune and ...

Finding a world like Earth elsewhere in the universe might mean looking for the right kind of solar system. A new discovery ...