When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view ...

Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

Saturn is not alone, however, in ring-bearing—Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune all possess rings as well, with vastly less drama. Saturn rings are made up of most icy particles and rocks and dust mixed.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Last week, a team of scientists claimed to have discovered possible signs of life on a nearby planet. in fact, their evidence ...

In late 2023, NASA released this NIRCam mage of the ice giant, showing the planet's faint rings, as well as several ... three times as far from its star as Neptune is from the sun.

The most ambitious proposal is a nuclear-powered mission to Neptune around 2039, intended to study its atmosphere, rings, and intriguing ... Meanwhile, NASA is facing the prospect of potentially ...