Illustration of Venus via Shutterstock Much like Earth, Venus has an ozone layer high in its atmosphere, according to new ...

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

This year brought us our third-known interstellar visitor, beautiful displays of the northern lights and the opening of the ...

Jupiter is about to dominate the night sky, lining up with Earth and the Sun in a way that makes the giant planet appear ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet beyond our Solar System.

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...

A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has advanced the ...

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...