At 11.9 light-years from us, i.e., our stellar neighborhood, a giant gaseous planet named Epsilon Indi Ab has surprised ...

Even in the worst areas of light pollution, you can’t miss Venus. After hiding out in the morning sky most of the last half of 2025, it has finally entered the Western evening sky and will continue ...

Earth, warm Jupiter, and brown dwarf in highly inclined and eccentric orbits, giving insights into planetary formation.

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, is also the solar system's largest satellite, even larger than the planet Mercury. It is ...

Scientists say Ganymede’s metallic heart may still be assembling beneath more than 620 miles of ice and water.

Io is a world of extremes. It is by far the most volcanically active world in our solar system. Being continually squeezed in ...

A half moon passes close to Jupiter on April 22, creating a striking scene. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Wednesday evening ...

A new analysis has revealed that Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than astronomers believed for nearly 50 years. That revision resets the basic dimensions of the Solar System’s largest planet ...

The painting on the left is an artist’s conception of a plume eruption on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The image on the right is a photo of two researchers in the Utah desert collecting effluent from the ...

The curious minds at What If investigate what would happen if you lit a match on Jupiter’s surface, revealing the impossible physics of fire in a gas giant’s atmosphere. Rock the Country festival: ...

Jupiter didn’t lose any weight; we just see it better now. Image credits: Weizmann Institute of Science. Jupiter is officially “smaller” than it was yesterday. To be clear: the planet itself didn’t ...