New findings reveal a solar composition richer in carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen than previously thought, potentially ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...

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

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.

The human family was treated to comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) during October, a visitor from the outer reaches of the ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

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

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...