A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

But there's something really weird about Venus. Though the hellish world has beautifully preserved impact craters on its ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

The mysteries of the cosmos continue to unravel, with scientists piecing together clues about the origins of our solar system ...

The discovery of a four-ring carbon molecule in a distant interstellar cloud may help to reveal how our own solar system formed An asteroid has helped researchers discover the largest molecule ever ...

Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Other than Saturn, the planets that have rings are: Jupiter: This planet has a faint ring system composed mainly of dust particles and small ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...