The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...