In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found a doomed planet that sheds an incredible amount of material—as much as a Mount Everest’s worth of mass with each orbit reports Space.com. This ...

The discovery of planets outside of our solar system, called exoplanets, has revealed strange worlds never imagined in our corner of the universe. Now, astronomers have found an ultra-hot gas giant ...

As we ease into fall, Bob King, or AstroBob, says that we can look for planets, the fall equinox, and the Harvest Moon in the evening sky. The planet Saturn will be visible Friday evening 9 p.m.

Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain, according to researchers. Scientists say this is occurring due to the planet's intense gravity. Dr. James O’Donoghue, from the Japan Aerospace ...

The intensely hot interior of planets isn’t somewhere you’d expect to find snow, but scientists do suspect that “iron snow” falls on the Earth’s core. Now, a new study has modeled the dynamics in the ...

Saturn’s rings are heating up the planet. Forty years’ worth of observations have shown that particles from the rings are hailing down into the atmosphere, slamming into the hydrogen there and heating ...

The fall equinox is a significant event in any tipped planet's life. Seasons are caused by a planet's tilted axis. Those which orbit the sun standing nearly straight up and down with little to no ...