U ranus is a very weird planet, and it turns out that there is a newly discovered oddity to add to its already extensive list. Astronomers used Hubble to study the interactions between the planet's ...

These characteristics provide lifeforms with the ecosystem and fuel they need to survive, ensuring that most places on Earth do not get too cold or hot for life to exist. However, people often ...

A groundbreaking new study has uncovered surprising revelations about the moons of Uranus, challenging existing theories of how these moons interact with the planet’s magnetic field. Researchers, ...

China is setting up a big, long-term plan for its space science, moving into a faster development phase. New advancements in ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

This rare alignment includes the five planets easily spotted with the naked eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Each is bright enough to be seen even in light-polluted city skies ...

Yale astronomers may have discovered the origin story for one of the universe's most dazzling phenomena—the double hot Jupiter—as well as a plan to find more of them.

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for ...