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

William Saunders, planetary scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, revealed that Uranus occulted a star lying about 400 ...

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have taken a major step toward understanding a puzzling type of planet ...

The scientists also observed that ice and gas giants like Uranus may be natural laboratories for learning about atmospheres. This absence of solid ground means that cloud formation, storm development, ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

Sub-Neptunes, planets with diameters bigger than Earth's but smaller than Neptune's, are the most prevalent form of exoplanet ...

Take a voyage to the stars either Saturday night or Sunday afternoon, as Symphony San Jose, under the baton of conductor Tatsuya Shimono, blasts off for "The Planets-An HD Odyssey," a concert-length ...