"Uranus's magnetosphere is one of the strangest in the solar system," Paola Tiranti, a researcher at Northumbria University in the U.K., said in a statement. "It's tilted and offset from the planet's ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

How any Earth-sized exoplanets exist, and how do we find them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

The six-planet parade will feature Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter. Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter ...

The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often ...

Our solar system may be the odd one out. Across the Milky Way, astronomers keep finding super-Earths, planets larger than our ...

Scientists say aliens are not hiding in Area 51. Experts believe life may exist on distant planets with water and the right ...

We’ve learned that Earth-sized planets aren’t alone out there. Thanks to missions like NASA’s Kepler and TESS telescopes, we’ve spotted dozens of rocky worlds ...

With Area 51 ruled out by President Obama, where might aliens really be hiding? Scientists have now revealed the best ...