All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Key takeawaysPlanets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would ...

Does it rain diamonds on Neptune and Uranus? Scientists uncover how extreme pressure and temperature deep inside these ice giants create a continuous diamond rain.

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...

Neptune is in Aries for the first time in 150 years. Natasha Weber breaks down what that means for your star sign.

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

The other planets, Uranus and Neptune, are not visible to the naked ... Derek Demeter, planetarium director stands inside the Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust Planetarium at Seminole State College.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...