"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

"Mission To Mars" is an optimistic film that chronicles the first manned mission to Mars that ends in tragedy when a raging red cyclone wipes out the entire crew but leaves one survivor after an ...

So which planets in our solar system have rings?All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these spectacular structures. Plus, many other objects in the solar system, ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

The Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office, the US government's spy satellite agency, are also capitalizing on ...

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...