NASA shares an iconic image of carbon dioxide ice erupting in geysers when Martian winter turns to spring.

When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...

As such, the ISS operates on Coordinated Universal Time, UTC, also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). This puts NASA ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

The two planets are farthest apart when they are ... it would take about one and a half years to complete the elliptical orbit. "In the nine months it takes to get to Mars, Mars moves a ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

They laid out detailed evidence suggesting the orbits of six of these objects could only be explained by a single massive Planet Nine. According to their calculations, this hidden heavyweight would be ...

Researchers have discovered an Earth-like planet with such an eccentric orbit that it swoops in and out of its habitable zone throughout its year. Though the super-Earth could theoretically be ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

For many years scientists have been wondering if a mysterious ninth planet lurks in our Solar system. “Planet Nine”, dubbed, has fascinated scientists for its ability to account for “anomalous” ...