The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

NASA shares an iconic image of carbon dioxide ice erupting in geysers when Martian winter turns to spring.

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is a joint ESA/NASA project. It has become one of the most important science ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

This week sees a special stargazing event, as as up to six planets will be visible in a line in the night sky.

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

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

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

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 times faster than any seen here on Earth, and the fastest of their kind ever ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped a stunning image of a cloud on Jupiter shaped like a dolphin, proving that even science has an ...

The Omaha area will be able to spot the parade of planets this week. Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will align on two days: Jan. 27 and 31. The planets will align in the evening sky ...