Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post A Mysterious Object Visited Our Solar System And Altered The Orbits Of Four ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...

In Earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 442 kph, but they ...

A team of scientists has proposed a groundbreaking theory suggesting that a massive interstellar object—potentially eight times the size of Jupiter—may have dramatically impacted the orbits of ...