One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

Approximately 190 light-years from Earth, two planets circle the star TOI-1130 in a setup astronomers rarely see. One is a ...

“Mars, can you please clean up your Legos?” “Jupiter, finish your peas.” “Don’t pull the cat’s tail, Mercury!” ...

A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” ...

Beyond the rocky planets in the solar system is an extensive area of cold, huge planets that are quite unlike Earth, as they ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, is also the solar system's largest satellite, even larger than the planet Mercury. It is ...

A Magical Journey made with LEGO bricks," at Cox Science Center & Aquarium, get back to nature and reality during the ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured an extraordinary image of Thebe, the second-largest of Jupiter’s inner moons, providing ...

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

Thanks to the sheer mass of Jupiter and fellow gas giant Saturn, the Solar System barycenter is rarely in the center of the Sun, and often outside of the Sun altogether, as the video below from ...