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

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

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

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

The Martian calendar, established in 1955, counts years from the "great dust storm of 1956," a significant event in Mars' ...

Warner Bros. is developing a remake of the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet . The movie will be written by comic book and ...