Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...

The Kepler-10 planetary system is clearly a place of extremes. It has a small, Earth-sized world that is half scorched, the ...

These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

Venus and Saturn shine before dawn, with Neptune tucked between them — see if you can spot the ice giant with binoculars or a ...

Friday, May 2, presents a perfect opportunity to catch the mighty ice giant Neptune close to the planets Saturn and Venus in ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

Scientists believe that they have discovered a new planet in the Earth's solar system, with NASA naming the finding 'Planet X' ...

Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...