The Soviets launched Kosmos 482 in 1972, intending to send it to Venus to join other spacecraft in their Venera program. But ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

The future of this tax credit is uncertain, as the current administration has expressed a desire to eliminate the subsidies ...

A ninth planet the size of Neptune may be hidden in the far reaches of the solar system, but the evidence has left some experts skeptical.

In 2005, thanks to Michael Brown’s scientific antics, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission flew around the moon. In 2001, Chris Hadfield became ...

A recent paper published in Nature and Nature Astronomy finding life's building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...

An EnergySage report revealed that Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C., are tops in the ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.