Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed ...

Mars experienced an aurora in March 2024, turning the sky green, as a solar storm produced the first visible light Martian ...

NASA engineers have revived the thrusters of a spacecraft operating 15 billion miles away from Earth in what has been ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

Webb’s instruments captured detailed spectral data revealing both the presence and distribution of ice particles across the ...

Precipitation, to be clear, includes any variant – not just water, but snow or freezing rain and other forms of water falling from the sky. Much like the Eastern Seaboard in winter, a "warm" Mars ...

Scientists have long suspected the differences could be explained by what's inside the moon but until now, they couldn't ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time, with the sky glowing softly in ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

Sky watchers will soon be able to spot the waning crescent Moon visit two Solar System worlds in the early morning sky ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

The recent detection of a gas in a distant plant has been linked to life forms has sparked debate among scientists.