On December 19, avid skywatchers can catch a glimpse of the mysterious visitor through powerful binoculars or a telescope ...

Our fundamental understanding of Neptune and Uranus may be completely wrong, say researchers rethinking our solar system.

Some of the planets in our Solar System are gigantic. But what if they got even bigger? Let’s go up the planetary size chart ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

For decades, Pluto was our solar system's ninth planet. This video explains the scientific journey that led to its ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...