The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth. The ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.