American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

New research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth’s orbit and shaping the cycles that drive long-term ...

I was 12 when this tiny, witchy woman showed up at our door to read our astrology charts. She was scary looking, otherworldly ...

Learn more about IRAS 23077+6707, a protoplanetary disk, nicknamed Dracuala's Chivito, that may serve as a planet nursery and ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the moon and other worlds.

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to find out ...

Astronomers have identified a distant, slow-moving object in historical sky surveys that may represent a previously unknown ninth planet orbiting far beyond Neptune. The object, observed at an extreme ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

A new study says that Uranus could be an ice giant (left) as always believed, or a rock giant (right) (Credit: Keck Institute for Space Studies/Chuck Carter) For generations, school posters have ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b. When you purchase through ...