Uranus, of course, is the seventh planet from the sun, 1.6 billion miles from Earth at their closest orbits. It was in the ...

Astrophysicists from Durham University have developed a new model to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life forming in ...

For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Mapping Pluto Broken Heart | This image was taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the morning ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...

The findings suggest that the formation of stars in the early universe was much quicker than previously thought.

The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme ...

Theoretical physicist Abhay Ashtekar is famous for having worked on an idea for how space-time itself is generated. So we ...

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...