Chinese official calls for prioritizing Neptune orbiter mission A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the country’s national congress is proposing the prioritization of an unprecedented ...

Starship’s heavy lift capacity, in orbit refueling, and potential aerobraking role could significantly accelerate a long-awaited mission to Uranus.

What really happened inside Osama Bin Laden's compound the night of the raid? In this episode, we break down the events of ...

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft over the last decade, scientists discovered a familiar type of electromagnetic ...

On 8 and 9 June, two bright planets - Venus and Jupiter - would appear in the sky only a pinky finger distance apart from our perspective on Earth, despite being millions of miles from one another.

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that spacecraft’s velocity could receive a huge boost — enough to allow it to catch up with ...

Sky-gazers will have the opportunity to see six planets in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, according to NASA.

Sky-gazers will have the opportunity to see six planets in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, according to NASA.

Skygazers across Texas and beyond can catch a glimpse of six planets arcing across the night sky this week in a so-called planetary parade.

Neptune’s mid-latitude clouds began fading in 2019 and have not recovered, according to nearly three decades of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories. By 2020, ...

Why does Pluto's orbit take so long? Pluto's orbit is not like those of the eight major planets, which are relatively circular. Instead, it is highly elliptical and tilted. At tim ...

This rare “planet parade” features six planets—Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter—appearing clustered along the ecliptic, the Sun’s apparent path across the sky, creating a stunning ...