Occultations of planets by the moon are fairly rare events for any given location on Earth, but when they do occur, they ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

"If Jupiter doesn’t have a surface, what does it have? " ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

The newly discovered exoplanet is five times the size and 60 times the mass of Earth. It is a sub-Saturn class planet and is ...

With its huge rings of ice and dust, Saturn is one of the Solar System's most iconic planets. It's beautiful, really. But ...

A new study has claimed that methane gas might be trapped beneath a 9.7-kilometre-thick distinct crust of ... second-largest ...