NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

When it comes to understanding life in space, you’d think that an astrobiologist’s workload would be focused in, well, space.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet dubbed K2-18b.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Large hailstones made of ammonia may explain why the gas is missing from large pockets of Jupiter's atmosphere.

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in ...

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...

In a new study published in Science Advances, a team led by planetary scientist Chris Moeckel from UC Berkeley offers a ...

Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...