A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Discoveries about Uranus, the solar system's enigmatic planet, challenge previous assumptions, highlighting the need for ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

Our views of several planets improve this month, most notably that of Jupiter, which approaches its closet approach to Earth ...

Hello everyone and welcome to a great month for planet gazing since you’ll be able to see all five visible planets in your ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...