Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Planet Hunters NGTS was set up in 2021 in the hope of uncovering new exoplanets by engaging volunteers to examine data from the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) telescopes in Chile.

This project marks the longest single-target ... our chances of finding regular communications among planets beyond our solar system, if they exist.” The team did not find any alien signals ...

“The methods and algorithms that we developed for this project can eventually ... of finding regular communications among planets beyond our solar system, if they exist,” said Nick Tusay ...

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.

There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. The tantalizing prospect of a ninth ...

Through observations, either with space telescopes or with ground-based equipment, we can find out how planets in our solar system and beyond are structured, what materials they are made of, whether ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

In fact, every planet—and every moon—in the solar system will be in the sky during the eclipse. However, that doesn’t mean you’ll see them all. Contrary to what you might have read ...