With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

My grandparents are responsible for my love of travel. This visit to Antarctica felt the most meaningful of the trips they ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s mysterious auroral activity. Faint hints of Neptune’s auroras were first ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is in low Earth orbit, 320 miles (515 kilometers) above the planet, placing it above most of the ...

K2-18b, a massive planet located 120 light-years from Earth, has captured the attention of astronomers worldwide. Orbiting a star in the constellation Leo, this exoplanet has been the subject of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

The micromoon refers to a full moon that rises when the celestial body is the farthest from Earth, which NASA states is about ...

What is a Micromoon? A micromoon occurs when the full moon coincides with the moon's farthest point from Earth, known as apogee. On April 12, 2024, the moon will reach a maximum distance of ...

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...