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

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Ever since we broke the bonds of gravity and ventured outside Earth's atmosphere, we have been traveling on a journey with ...

On January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ... capturing images of the planet’s ultraviolet auroras in 2011. Like the auroras that can be found here on Earth, such as the Northern ...

Google Earth's Voyager tool could become a new kind of ... and videos will be tracked on Google Earth's map of the planet, tied to the location where your adventures took place.

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought – a difference that could be crucial in planning future missions to the gas g ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...