The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet.

Discover more about the Sun's solar cycle and how it impacts us here on Earth, from increased auroras to overwhelmed power ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have messed with ...

In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...