A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

"Solar system formation models using the new ... basis for understanding what element abundances in giant planet atmospheres can tell us about the formation of planets. We already have our eyes on ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to settle key questions on exoplanets (a planet outside ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...