The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made another remarkable discovery, identifying a massive planet with temperatures ...

The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually has two tails: a dust tail and an ion tail. The dust tail is curved and the ...

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...