Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is a joint ESA/NASA project. It has become one of the most important science ...

The 'hot Neptune' planet, named LTT 9779b, is so scorching that its atmosphere should have evaporated, according to ...

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A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

As far as we know Neptune is the furthest full-size planet in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun some 2.69 billion miles away. But that doesn’t mean astronomers aren’t keeping a close eye on it and ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

This discovery is promising for scientists and NASA, which plans to land astronauts at the south pole on the near side of the ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

The brightest planets in the night sky will shine as the 'planet parade' continues throughout February, plus be on the ...

NASA has found something on Uranus and Neptune. The ice giants of the solar system have long been enigmas for science.