For decades, something strange has lurked inside the icy giants of our solar system. Uranus and Neptune, distant blue worlds ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

What views of the night sky would we have if we had evolved on the Jupiter moon Europa, or one of the TRAPPIST-1 planets?

But as you get farther out into the solar system, our knowledge becomes scarce. For instance, what’s inside the so-called ice giants, Neptune and Uranus? Recent research based on computer simulations ...

Luna skims by Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter as it grows from a thin crescent to just past First Quarter in the ...

Neptune is way, way out there, orbiting the Sun some 2.8 billion miles away. That’s likely why a new analysis of some old photos of the ice giant have just revealed something a bit funny ...

It’s St. Patrick’s Day weekend, hear one of Beethoven’s most beloved and the Chiseler’s Market beckons bargain hunters.

An international team of scientists has experimentally observed an unusual form of ice that could naturally occur on distant ...

from the rocky planets to the moons around our gas and ice giants. Europa is one of the closest moons of the gas giant Jupiter. Scientists believe that there is a subsurface ocean beneath Europa's ...

Mercury has a rocky surface when, facing the sun, can reach highs of 800 degrees while overnight lows could reach minus 290 degrees, according to the space agency. Venus holds the crown of the hottest ...

Full of extraordinary footage, Robert Stone's blissed-out mind-bender of a movie meditates on the possibilities of life in ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.