The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

Astronomers use planetary alignment to describe the phenomenon when planets gather closely on one side of the Sun at the same ...

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

For a brief moment at the end of February, every planet will appear in the night sky simultaneously in a rare celestial ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Understanding the Urgency of Climate Change Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is a present-day reality. The ...