What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever clear images of auroral activity on Neptune, the 8th planet from the Sun. For years, scientists had only speculated about the presence of ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only ...

NEW YORK — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan ...

a ultracool dwarf star only about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth. The planetary haul -- which includes at least six rocky planets total, three of which were first discovered last ...

March’s night sky is alive with motion – planets shift ... Mercury appears briefly, then vanishes. Venus fades away, followed by Jupiter. The Moon transforms into a deep red during the eclipse, only ...