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 ...

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

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

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

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers ...

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

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

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