On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...
Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
An international collaboration including U-M researchers have used JWST to provide an unprecedented window into the formation of planets around young ...
Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...
A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...
The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...
A French astrophotographer recently snapped shots of the moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in a single ...
The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...
Each planet in our solar system is given a unique, humorous catchphrase that reflects its personality and role. From ...
Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.