Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

A comical planetary beauty contest is described, highlighting the unique traits of each planet: Mercury’s fiery nature, Venus ...

In a humorous take, the solar system is imagined with desi moms giving advice to their planetary children. From Mercury being ...

An international collaboration including U-M researchers have used JWST to provide an unprecedented window into the formation of planets around young ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

Onward and outward, Jupiter rides high to the south in Taurus the Bull at dusk. The waxing near First Quarter Moon meets ...

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with ...

Planets dealing with personality clashes and dating mishaps come off as an amusing disaster. From Mercury’s impatience to ...

For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...

Super Bowl LIX was full of big moments, from Kendrick Lamar's halftime show with SZA to the Philadelphia Eagles' victory.

The year 2025 has already been a spectacular time for stargazers and skywatchers. Last month, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, ...

However, you might be surprised to know that Earth is not alone in having volcanoes – in fact, it’s beaten numerically by the ...