Naturally, the aurora on our solar system's largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own Northern lights.

In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they'd found a molecule in a faraway planet's atmosphere that ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy is ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest and most intriguing rocks on the Red Planet.

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

An astonishing fact only known for the past few decades is that every big galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black ...