The path toward intelligent life, they argue, may be more of a predictable process, unfolding as global conditions allow in a ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

Learn about the life and scientific contributions of Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer known for his laws of ...

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...