The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...

MIT astronomers estimate a planet 140 light-years from Earth may disintegrate fully within the next 1 to 2 million years.

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is ...