The six planets were visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21, and for about four weeks afterward. Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye. You'll need a ...

Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, ...

The mystique of Mars has been studied for centuries. The fourth planet from the sun is reminiscent of a rich, red desert and features a rugged surface challenging to traverse. While several robotic ...

A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.

Geologists today have a good understanding of Earth's interior, based on pioneering work by Isaac Newton and Danish ...

The new work suggests that the edge of the dichotomy was eroded back by hundreds of kilometers during the time when an ocean might have occupied Mars' northern hemisphere. To view the Martian ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

NASA's new Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder, set to land on the Moon's surface in 2025, aims to revolutionize our understanding ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing ...

This month offers incredible views of six planets, including Venus-Saturn conjunction. See the dates for all of 2025's ...

NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter has found the fastest-disintegrating planet ever. Losing a moons-worth of matter every million years, it is a prime target for the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...