Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home ...

The first world beyond our Solar System to be mapped in three dimensions a gas giant almost ten times more massive than ...

As the nights grow longer across the Northern Hemisphere, November offers a dynamic stage for planet watchers. From elusive ...

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

Have you ever had one of those moments where the sheer vastness of the world or the universe completely blows your mind? It ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

New research shows how Jupiter carved out rings and gaps that changed how and when planets and meteorites formed.

‘The Planets,” the 2018 work which propelled English composer Gustav Holst to “rock star” status, has been a powerful influence on music of all genres ever since — and film composer John Williams in ...

WASHINGTON - Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all by themselves, called rogue planets. While their origins are ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers discovered a free-floating rogue planet with a mass 10 times heavier than Jupiter, and it's growing at an unprecedented rate. The rogue planet, named as such because it ...