In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other ...

The European Space Agency is set to realize its long-term goal of exploring the signs of life on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus ...

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...

This artist's concept depicts the protoplanet WISPIT 2b accreting matter as it orbits around its star, WISPIT 2.NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) The ...

The full moon next month will also be close to Saturn in the night sky, making for a beautiful naked-eye spectacle of moon ...

For centuries, people have wondered whether we’re alone in the universe. No one’s shaken hands with aliens yet, but scientists […] ...

Space photos always look breathtaking, but have you ever wondered how they’re actually taken? On the surface, it seems obvious: […] ...

"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...