Scientists suggest superionic “hot black ice” deep inside Neptune may explain its tilted, offset and chaotic magnetic field, ...

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

A rare triple conjunction of the Moon, Saturn, and Neptune will be visible tonight, January 23, 2026. Learn the best time to ...

While the Perseverance rover continues to capture amazing images of the Martian surface, we also look back at Voyager 2's passage by Neptune. Plus, an amazing lightning storm seen from the ISS, a ...

Thick, swirling clouds cover Jupiter from pole to pole. They hold water like Earth’s clouds, but at far greater density.

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

London, Jan 12 (The Conversation) We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place ...

An international research team led by Korean astronomers has identified the principles of planetary system formation through ...

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...