Voyager 1 is going to achieve another monumental feat in a few weeks -- it will be the first spacecraft to travel a light day ...

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...

NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

Bill McKinnon shares his story of a career spent studying the geology and geophysics of icy worlds beyond our own. McKinnon, ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Astronomers have now confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, marking a significant milestone in humanity’s ...

An artist's rendering of two comets that will make a near-earth passes later this month. The first, known as SWAN, will pass ...

On 1973, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned, and special ...