The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

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

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

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

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

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

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

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

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

NASA has said in the past that the Red Planet is 'one of the only other places we know where life may have existed in the ...