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

Four planets in the solar system are about to appear in alignment in the night sky. Here's how stargazers will be able to see ...

April’s planetary parade has fewer planets. Only four will line up: Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. April's parade of ...

Four of Earth’s neighbors are about to appear in a planetary alignment. Those four planets — Mercury, Venus, Neptune and ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

In a stunning new finding, astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence yet of life existing beyond our solar system. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers from the University of ...

Dune. Star Wars. Alien. Science fiction movies love alien worlds, and so do we. But how do scientists find planets outside ...

Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...

Skywatchers throughout the Northern Hemisphere are enjoying views of the newly discovered Comet SWAN.

Q: Why do the planets all orbit the Sun in the same plane ... a senior curator in the space history division at the Air and Space Museum. About 4.5 billion years ago, a massive cloud of ...

Combination of Cosmic Processes Shapes the Size and Location of Sub-Neptunes Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets ...