If someone asks you what planet is closest to Earth, you'll probably blurt out Venus. That's a perfectly normal thing to say, but it's also wrong. Numerous websites ...

The farthest object ever explored is slowly revealing its secrets, as scientists piece together the puzzles of the Kuiper Belt object NASA's New Horizons ...

Venus may technically be our neighbor, but Earth spends the most time close to Mercury.

Evidence for Planet Nine continues to mount, as two new studies offer support of its existence, even if NASA and space researchers have yet to find it.

Despite being the very first planet candidate discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope, Kepler-1658b had a rocky road to confirmation. It moved from planet ...

Three newly discovered planets, beyond our solar system, have masses comparable to our own Neptune.

GREENBUSH — As long as people have studied the night sky and understood the stars we can see are objects similar to our sun, we have wondered if there ...

Every textbook and table on the internet agrees -- the closest planet to Earth is Venus. But according to a new article in Physics Today, a new mathematical ...

Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it's often in rings.

The Big Dipper sets behind a windmill located in Show Low, Arizona. This week, observers can catch the bright asterism climbing higher in the evening sky.

Three of the visible planets — Venus, Saturn and Jupiter — are an easy sight an hour before sunrise. They form a line in the southeastern sky.

The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the ...

Some of the peculiar aspects of our solar system — an enveloping cloud of comets, dwarf planets in weird orbits and, if it truly exists, a possible Planet Nine far ...

New observations of a distant exoplanet and its solar system offer proof of a long-standing astronomical theory: passing stars can perturb planetary systems and ...

What if a high school girl in Virginia is the key to discovering hundreds of new planets?

What is the closest planet to Earth? Nope, you're wrong. We always think of this in terms of distance from the Sun. But that's not the same as the distance ...

A new astronomical spectrograph provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby stars, allowing astronomers to detect ...

Ten years after the Kepler Space Telescope launched and revolutionized exoplanet discovery, Kepler-1658 b has finally been confirmed as the first exoplanet ...

People used to argue about whether planets like the eight (or more) in our solar system were rare. Starting in ...

Engineers are working to develop rovers that can move in new ways, in hopes that the vehicles will be better-equipped to explore the moon, Mars and beyond.

What if we didn't change our clocks for Daylight Savings Time? And watching spring arrive in the night and morning skies - Venus and Jupiter at sunset; ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio--A NASA telescope that will give humans the largest, deepest, clearest picture of the universe since the Hubble Space Telescope could find ...

To find out how planets form astrophysicists run complicated and time consuming computer calculations. Members of the NCCR PlanetS at the University of Bern ...

NASA'S new planet-seeking telescope could find THOUSANDS of new potential homes in the universe and massively boost the space agency's search for alien ...

Corresponding with the three-year anniversary of their announcement hypothesizing the existence of a ninth planet in the solar system, Caltech's Mike Brown ...

ANU scientists have found that Earth is made of the same elements as the Sun but has less of the volatile elements such as hydrogen, helium, oxygen and ...

Laying out two decades of evidence for the mysterious “Planet 9,” a team of astronomers predicts that if it exists, it's likely to be discovered within the decade.

All pure diamonds are the same mineral. But they didn't form the same way. One scientist thinks it's time to talk about the life stories of such rocks.

Planets closely orbiting red dwarf stars may have dynamic tectonic plates, making them more life-friendly than previously thought.

To understand conditions of exoplanets, NASA researchers have created the atmosphere of a super-hot planet outside our solar system, here on Earth.

Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus will form a straight and equally spaced line above the southeastern horizon the morning of Wednesday, March 13th.

#Ana Humphrey, a senior at T.C. Williams High School, has won first place and $250,000 in the national Regeneron Science Talent Search for her research into ...

Last week I briefly told you about the Equinox Super Worm Moon happening this month. This is just one of several celestial events you can see over the next few ...

For most people, snow days aren't very productive. Some people, though, use the time to discover the most distant object in the solar system. That's what Scott ...

A European exoplanet-studying spacecraft has been cleared for liftoff this fall. The Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) recently passed a crucial ...

The inner core of planet Earth was once molten. But it solidified within the past 565 million years, a new study suggests. That would have been just in time to ...

The highest resolution images offer about 110 feet (33 meters) per pixel.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California have developed a simple new recipe for baking oven-*fresh* alien atmospheres — and you can ...

The astro-physicist who stripped Pluto's status as a planet, Mike Brown, discussed recent and potential new discoveries during lectures at Clemson.

An acoustic performance by Portland's Class M Planets will take place at the Beachcrest Brewing Company in the Shops at Salishan (7755 N Highway 101, ...

SPACE can be a perilous place, offering an array of apocalyptic scenarios capable of causing mass extinction events on Earth. Here are the five most plausible ...

Is the best way to communicate with future astronauts on Mars by texting?

When he first suggested life could travel between planets, physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies was derided. That doesn't happen any more, he writes.

Super-puffs — fluffy planets observed to have abnormally low densities — are a problem. According to theoretical models, they shouldn't exist — and yet we've ...

Taiji Miyasaka explores light and space in three spheres currently orbiting at MadArt.

"We want a voice when it comes to making decisions, versus the older generations—who just don't care—making decisions for us," protesting students said.

This 1944 view of Saturn as seen from its largest moon, Titan, is one of Chesley Bonestell's most famous paintings. The artist used his knowledge of astronomy ...

NASA's Juno orbiter probe launched in 2011 has revealed detailed images of the swirling gas clouds covering Jupiter in its search for clues as to how the planet ...

As it turned out, the recipe for a hot Jupiter atmosphere is not at all complicated. A captivating new NASA project has just achieved a spectacular feat, the space ...

President Donald Trump's NASA budget request for the 2020 fiscal year includes funding for a Mars sample return mission that could launch as soon as 2026, ...

In this version of Captain Marvel, the main character is a young woman, Carol Danvers, a pilot in military *service* on the planet Kree. She is a highly skilled flyer, ...

A collaborative group of researchers in New Mexico and France have been peering into the night sky at Jupiter – through a solar telescope – to discover the ...

Wondering what the day has in store for your star sign? Here's a quick glance at horoscopes for 19 March 2019 - completely free!

UChicago scientist examines ice from Taylor Glacier to understand previous climate changes.

The hunt for Earth-like planets, and perhaps extraterrestrial life, just got more precise, thanks to record-setting starlight measurements made possible by a ...

A newfound dwarf planet named Farfarout is now the most distant known object in the solar system. And depending on how its orbit shakes out, it may help ...

Observations by ESA's Mars Express orbiter show evidence of an ancient planet-wide groundwater system on the Red Planet. Mosaic of the Valles Marineris ...

Even though scientists haven't seen the hypothesized ninth planet in our solar system, they think they're close.

Army researchers are using X-Rays to get a look inside some of the world's most precious artifacts from space, including one of the Earth's oldest Martian ...

A busy week ahead as we work toward the vernal equinox on the 20th as well as a full moon in Libra at the same time. What a fabulous way to embrace the ...

Captain Marvel is playing in theaters as we speak, having had a monster release weekend a few days ago and getting ready to dominate the box office for at ...

As per a recent study, there was a distant alien world which was going to disappear into the inter-stellar space. The gravitation of a pair of stars pulled back the ...

A team of scientists has re-created some of the first steps of life in the lab, testing whether life could emerge on other ocean worlds.

To some people, the only good mosquito is a dead mosquito. And not just because they can ruin your backyard barbecue. Mosquitoes have been called the ...

The Atacama Desert, a desert plateau stretching along the coast in northern Chile and parts of Peru, is one of the driest places in the world. The extreme ...

Researchers from Mount Holyoke College and UMass Amherst are among the teams chosen by NASA to study moon rocks gathered during Apollo missions 50 ...

Avengers: Endgame sees Earth's Mightiest Heroes take on Thanos once more - but is a bigger threat waiting?

The presence of a new planet on the outskirts of the Solar System was proposed by Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in 2016 to explain ...

The Trump administration is continuing its rollout of the fiscal year 2020 budget request this week. The White House Office of Management and Budget ...

Wondering what the day has in store for your star sign? Here's a quick glance at horoscopes for 18 March 2019 - completely free!

A meteor exploded over Earth in December with ten times the force of the atomic bomb which decimated the city of Hiroshima in World War Two.It took place on ...

China thinks a solar power project in space to beam energy from the sun back for use on Earth is a viable idea. The renewable-energy concept has been around ...

In a recent event, GMV showcased the analytical reports of ERGO as well as ESROCOS robotic technologies. GMV is working within H2020 technology's ...

Keep your eyes on the sky March 10-12 because the moon will be passing by Mars, making it very easy to spot. The waxing crescent moon will be moving to the ...

Late last year, astronomers announced that they'd found a super-Earth around Barnard's star – one of the closest suns to our own. The discovery of a planet just ...

Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a planet roughly twice the size of Earth located within its star's habitable zone ...

With $3.5 million in alumni funds coming in, the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center will soon be established.

The Kepler space telescope is officially out of fuel and will hunt planets no more, NASA announced.

While you can't actually travel to a planet outside our solar system, these new multimedia treats are the next-best thing.

Planets between the size of Neptune and Saturn shouldn't be rare after all, scientists realize, thanks to a trick of magnification.

The Kepler space telescope can no longer search for planets orbiting other stars. After 9½ years, NASA's premier exoplanet-hunter is out of gas. NASA officials ...

Wondering what the day has in store for your star sign? Here's a quick glance at horoscopes for 17 March 2019 - completely free!

Astronomers using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert have discovered Saturn- and Jupiter-sized planets orbiting a star named CI Tau.

Researchers have analyzed the composition and structure of faraway exoplanets using statistical tools. Their analysis indicates whether a planet is earth-like, ...

A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from the Sun. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical ...

New NASA research confirms that Saturn's rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn's magnetic ...

Hubble uncovered a new dark storm on Neptune and provided a *fresh* look at a long-lived storm on Uranus.

An ambitious team of astronomers has discovered the most “far out” object ever observed in our solar system. The object, a pink dwarf planet called 2018 VG18 ...

NASA's newest planet-hunting mission has reported detecting its first alien world — a "super-Earth" that is likely evaporating under the heat from its star, a new ...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine's surprise announcement that NASA is considering not using SLS for EM-1 have led some to defend the use of the SLS.

Astronomers think they've just discovered two more rogue planets wandering the Milky Way alone. And according to the new study, which is set for publication in ...

Kepler mission discovered thousands of exoplanets with novel technique.

Since astronomers confirmed the first exoplanet in 1995, they've gone on to uncover almost 3,900 distant worlds, with thousands still awaiting analysis.

In 2016, astronomers announced there was a new planet in the outer solar system. Planet Nine, supposedly larger than Neptune and located far beyond the ...

Far beyond the orbits of the solar system's eight planets, astronomers have found another object they've nicknamed “The Goblin.” It's a small world traveling a ...

One possible reason we might not have found E.T. yet is that he might be a breath of "*fresh* air." A new study published in December suggests that exoplanets ...

Imagine going to live on a planet where the sun never moves in the sky. No sunrise, no sunset. Several years ago, I became obsessed with tidally locked planets ...

After many years, we are on our way back to the moon. Moreover Canada will be part of it.

Astronomers announced last week the discoveries of the first two potential planets detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a new ...

For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius body at the edge of the Solar System. Kilometer sized bodies like the one discovered have ...