Venus has long been cast as the solar system’s hellscape, a world of crushing pressure and searing heat where spacecraft survive for minutes, not days. Now a new line of research suggests that beneath ...

Look west just after sunset from this weekend for a chance to see some of six planets, though the best views will be had ...

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

Point Galaxy is an outer space riff on Point Salad, twisting that board game's score-focused play without overcomplicating it ...

Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large - by ever ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

Entropy is a board game all about creating galaxies, it has some daring design goals and is due to release in quarter three ...

Glance over your best 8 friends in your personal Solar System ...

Astronomers have seen the aftermath of two planetary pile-ups in the same turbulent star system — providing potential insights into how planets form 1. Observations from the early 2000s indicated that ...

Lineups of planets have often attracted attention for their supposed effects on human affairs—and for several days in early January, five solar system bodies are arranged in a nearly straight line in ...