Earth is far from a stationary planet; it spins on its axis, orbits the sun, journeys with the solar system around the Milky Way, and moves through the expanding universe in a complex, layered dance ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

These Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its ...

Forty-three years ago, in March 1982, humanity received its last direct visual postcard from the surface of Venus.

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

Northern lights, or auroras, are not exclusive to Earth. Astronomers have already detected this phenomenon on most planets ...

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

Early Tuesday morning, an unexpected geomagnetic storm was observed by the Space Weather Prediction Center, being rated a G3 (Strong) on the Geomagnetic Storm scale. This was due to solar winds ...

Some classes of stars create light elements, such as oxygen and silicon; others also craft heavier ones, such as iron and ...