Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through ...

Jupiter, the colossal gas giant of our solar system, has always captured the fascination of astronomers and space enthusiasts alike. With its immense size, swirling storm systems, and striking bands ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Earth's magnetic field protects from solar radiation. It originates from molten core motion. Magnetic north pole moves constantly. Field reversals occurred in the past. The field weakens in some areas ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and also the closest planet to the Sun. Mercury orbits the Sun at an incredibly fast speed, averaging nearly 106,000 miles per hour. These are just a ...

Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say is one of the most “drastic events in the evolution of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

A cross July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This early NASA ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...