Astronomers have identified a small but significant possibility that a Neptune-sized planet is quietly orbiting within the ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

Since the 1970s, Voyager 1 has been making groundbreaking discoveries. But its journey is far from over, and it's still ...

Photoshop CC 2022 tutorial showing how to create an outer space scene of the planet, Jupiter. Jupiter texture map: <a href=" ...

Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect ...