When most people think of our Solar System, they think of the 8 planets officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But what if I told you there are at least 40 planets, and ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System. This one appears to be a comet, a ball of dust, ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

As space exploration continues to reveal new and fascinating insights into the planets of our solar system, the possibility ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

A U.K.-led mission aims to determine if microbial life exists in Venus’s clouds by detecting phosphine and ammonia.

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...