Have you ever wondered how far Jupiter is from Mars or Venus from Earth? Our handy calculator makes it easy to find out! All distances are average and ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The first solar eclipse of the year will happen tomorrow. No one will see a total eclipse, but partial views will be visible ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

The public is invited to the free celebration from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Como Park Elementary School at 780 Wheelock Parkway West on April 17.

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...