Saturn’s moon Titan has Earth-like weather powered by methane. New observations reveal rising clouds and rare molecules.

The William M. Thomas Planetarium is closed for the summer break at Bakersfield College. On Friday, we celebrated the largest ...

O ur planet is a water world. Around 71 percent of Earth's surface is covered by sea – and this view of the world really hits ...

Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed ...

On Earth, the charged particles emitted by the sun create impressive light shows in the sky. But there are also auroras on our neighboring planet. The Mars rover Perseverance has observed them, ...

If an atmosphere is gaseous, it doesn't mean it's featureless and well mixed. In fact, Jupiter's atmosphere has structures scientists are still learning about.

As May unfurls across northern Arizona, the symphony of spring grows richer each day. The ponderosa forest awakens with the ...

The US space agency took advantage of a rare cosmic event to get a glimpse inside the distant ice giant and you will not ...

NASA's Perseverance rover recently took the first ever photos of the aurora borealis on Mars from the surface of the planet.

A rare alignment with a distant star gave NASA an unprecedented view of Uranus’s atmosphere, rings and mysterious heat.

A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...