If you thought planets only circled stars in neat, flat disks, think again. Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence for ...

Astronomers claim they've found the most promising signs of possible life on a planet outside of our solar system.

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s rotation period. This technique revealed that it completes a rotation 28 ...

Uranus and Neptune are the furthest planets from the Sun. They are known as the Ice Giants. Uranus is the coldest planet in the Solar System. Unlike the other planets, Uranus spins on its side.

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured a series of remote planets in the HR 8799 star system that are 130 light years away in the Milky Way, and they are very strikin ...

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea, says Abigail Beall ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only around every eight years, according to EarthSky. Typically, Venus orbits ...