Neptune, the most distant major planet in the Solar System, has finally given up one of its longest held secrets. After ...

Scorching planets that should be bone-dry may actually create their own water deep inside, forging oceans through molten rock ...

Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion. By Katrina Miller This article was originally ...

The planet 55 Cancri e is less than 1.5 million miles from its sun-like star, NASA says. That’s 1/25 the distance Mercury is from our sun. NASA expects to get its first telescope images of the planet ...

We’ve discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar system, but the vast majority of these have been observed indirectly by seeing how the planet affects the star around which it orbits. Recently, ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...