Imagine a massive celestial body colliding with Uranus at high speed; this impact could have 'overturned' Uranus, causing its ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

As atmospheric observations of exoplanets become increasingly precise, it is more important than ever to correctly account ...

Curiosity Point 1: Did a catastrophic event turn Venus into a hellish world?

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

The Thames and Kosmos Planetarium Projector is a 2-in-1 star projector aimed at kids — see how it got on when I put it to the ...

Why do all planets in our solar system orbit the Sun the same way? This documentary unravels the cosmic forces, from the solar system’s violent birth to the hidden laws of physics, that keep the ...

The clear views of Saturn are because it will be making its closest pass to us here on Earth for 2025, giving us the clearest and brightest view we’ll get all year. It will be ‘in opposition’ this ...

New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...