Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in understanding more about Saturn and in future resource-mining. The ...

WASHINGTON – Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of ...

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...