The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

Researchers characterize the structure of liquid carbon for the first time, thanks to experiments at the European XFEL ...

Summer arrives for northern observers as the Moon visits Venus, Uranus, and Mercury. Plus: globular cluster M15, double star ...

Like Jupiter, Saturn is a gas giant with dozens of moons. Its largest moon, Titan, has lakes of liquid methane and a thick atmosphere. Saturn is also less dense than water—it would float if you had a ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

Given just how big space is, the solar system seems like it shouldn't be too mysterious. But there are actually plenty of ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin skywatchers can look forward to a dynamic week of celestial events, from the official ...

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same ...

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of ...