The highlight of this cosmic event is Venus, which will shine at its brightest on Sunday, February 16, making it the most ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Although the occurrence climaxed on Jan. 21 with a conjunction—close alignment—of Saturn and Mercury, the planetary parade ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

SwRI studied Saturn’s moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation helps ...

A potential record-breaking exoplanet system, traveling at 1.2M mph, may be the first of its kind ever identified.

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.