What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life beyond Earth, and how can the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) ...

Scientists found a bizarre new planet named Enaiposha, unlike any in our solar system. Learn why it's a mystery and how it’s ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

The night-sky models enabled him to later identify ... For example, the three innermost planets — Mercury, Venus and Earth — align within 3.6 degrees in the sky every 39.6 years.

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

Could similar patterns on another planet hint that water once existed ... of fracture patterns on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Europa. The model's predictions aligned with the geological information ...

This week presents a unique chance to see all of the seven other planets in our solar system ... Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Saturn are potentially visible to the naked eye, but Mercury ...

Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built on.

Inner planets are the four planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars ... questions about the accuracy of lunar evolution models and the very records used to reconstruct the ...