With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

Saturn long held the record for having the most moon, however just a few months ago after the discovery of more moons orbiting Jupiter, that planet took the lead. Well, now using new data and image ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

Scientific American spoke with the astronomer who has contributed to the discovery of two thirds of Saturn’s known moons ...

Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds habitable ...

Strawberry moon will be at full illumination June 11, the latest of the full moons tied to Native American tradition.