Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

An astrophysicist explains the science behind the Netflix hit series created by Game of Thrones creators. Adapted from George ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only ...