Neptune is an ice giant, composed primarily of hydrogen, helium, and methane, with a hot, dense fluid of icy materials above a small rocky core. Neptune has 14 known moons and at least five main rings ...

European space researchers have discovered a bizarre phenomenon on Mars: thousands of dark formations resembling giant ...

Uranus has 27 known moons, which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus takes approximately 84 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Robert Pattinson plays a space traveler who's repeatedly killed and resurrected in the name of scientific research in this ...

Greenlanders have been pushed into the global spotlight in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump said America could ...

The Phoenix Suns have been arguably the most disappointing team in the league this season. After a season in which the Suns earned the No. 6 seed in the West but were swept by the Minnesota ...

A year lasts under a day on this scorching planet, dubbed "LTT 9779 b." After discovering this curious world in 2020, scientists have now used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into ...

The planet parade will begin to wane as spring arrives, and while the planets are still visible at the end of February, the increasing daylight hours may make it slightly harder to see the parade ...

“This detention center is the first to open under the new administration,” ICE Acting Director Caleb Vitello said in a late Wednesday statement. “The location near an international airport streamlines ...

Ice ages, or glacial periods, are extremely cold stretches of time that occur roughly every 100,000 years, covering much of the planet with enormous ice sheets for thousands of years at a time.