New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

"I think these are not far-out type of ideas; they are not really futuristic ideas that we are talking about." ...

A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across the vast distances of ...

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, ...

NASA chief Jared Isaacman’s call to restore Pluto’s planetary status has reignited a long-running scientific debate over ...

Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies a planet that astronomers have spent years looking for and struggling to study: a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered surprising evidence about how enormous “super Jupiter” ...

June stargazing is definitely a late show, with true darkness not setting in until after 10 p.m. Mercifully, the best celestial show this month happens during evening twilight in the western sky. The ...

From a galaxy far, far away to the CBeebies Bedtime Story chair, Pedro Pascal is the latest star joining the much-loved ...

A team of researchers has pinpointed a key region in the early Solar System where the building blocks of planets, called planetesimals, formed over millions of years. The discovery, published in The ...

I recently received a query from one of my Atlantic Skies readers as to the difference between an occultation and an eclipse.