is between Mars and Saturn. It’s the largest planet in the solar system, big enough for more than 1,000 Earths to fit inside, ...
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...
Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...
Occultations of planets by the moon are fairly rare events for any given location on Earth, but when they do occur, they ...
Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...
Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...
November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.
Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars – are all made of solid, rocky material, Jupiter is a gas giant with a composition similar t ...
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.