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

"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

HERE’S a question: do you know what happens to pee in space? If yes, urine with a chance of nailing this quiz. If not, you ...

Astronomers are nearing a statistically significant finding that could confirm the potential signs of life detected on the distant exoplanet K2-18b are no accident. The team of astronomers, led by ...

Photo / Getty Images Research suggests pea milk emits a fraction of the planet-warming gases of cow’s milk production and is more nutritious than most other plant-based milks. Choosing from the ...

So these gases behave differently on those planets. But is this true or just an imaginary story out of fiction? Neptune and Uranus, often called "ice giants," are composed primarily of hydrogen ...

How many moons it has: At least 274 known moons, with more likely to be discovered With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from ...

In a new study, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope say they’ve identified gases in the atmosphere of a distant planet that are associated with life. These are the first hints of an ...

Just so you know, some of the graphics used to portray this cool conjunction of moon and planets aren’t accurate. As I described in WTOP’s monthly “What’s up In the sky for April 2025 ...

I remember working on my first Earth Day project as a kid in elementary school in Massachusetts, constructing two huge, makeshift Styrofoam spheres showing what our planet looked like at that time ...

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long,” says Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and ...