As the nights grow longer across the Northern Hemisphere, November offers a dynamic stage for planet watchers. From elusive ...

A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

Have you ever had one of those moments where the sheer vastness of the world or the universe completely blows your mind? It ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

New research shows how Jupiter carved out rings and gaps that changed how and when planets and meteorites formed.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been an object of fascination for astronomers for a long time, but it still manages to surprise people shockingly often.

The moon, just hours past its last quarter phase, will rise above the east-northeastern horizon shortly before midnight local time. Shining about 6 degrees to its right will be Jupiter, the largest ...

‘The Planets,” the 2018 work which propelled English composer Gustav Holst to “rock star” status, has been a powerful influence on music of all genres ever since — and film composer John Williams in ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

Blue Planet Red purports to be a documentary about Mars. The world presented by director Brian Cory Dobbs isn’t the one you and I might recognise, but it certainly has some appeal: it was home to an ...