A crescent moon will pair up with Saturn tonight, Jan. 22, setting the stage for a short but sweet cosmic display just after ...

New Scientist. In each episode, hosts Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte explore what would happen if they were given cosmic powers ...

Do you know which planet could float in a giant bathtub? Discover the science behind its low density, its hundreds of moons, ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star. The newfound alien world, designated ...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Observations of the two solar system gas giants have revealed that Jupiter 's north pole hosts a central polar vortex ...

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

Since this past September, Saturn’s been the best planet to enjoy through even a small telescope, even though its ring system ...

Today’s new moon sets up a rare ‘ring of fire’ annular solar eclipse, Chinese New Year and Ramadan — all aligning on Feb. 17, ...