December means the winter solstice is coming, it arrives on Dec. 21, and we are in for a couple of very cold and snowy months ...

Kerala now joins earlier Indian names found on Mars. Ganga and craters named after Devendra Lal remain important examples.

An eerie new photo shows a giant red ring shining above Possagno, near the Italian Alps. The eye-catching image is almost ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a rare dark-rayed crater on Ganymede, offering fresh clues about the moon’s icy surface, ...

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. November 25: Revisit Lacus Mortis Jupiter passes ...

Saturn stunned skywatchers on 23 November when its iconic rings seemed to vanish, leaving the planet looking strangely bare. Astronomers confirmed not ...

NASA's Juno mission has found that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is just the beginning, revealing a polar vortex system of perfectly geometric cyclones and 600 km/h winds that operate under physics we ...

The impacts that started on July 16, 1994 ended on July 22, 1994, were captured by NASA’s Galileo orbiter that was enroute to ...

Ever felt like your stars are playing “let’s mess with their schedule” again? Yeah, that’s probably a planetary dosha acting ...

While none of the spacecraft have cameras perfectly designed to spot comets zipping by at speeds up to about 153,000 miles ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon has always felt like a place that tests your sense of what a world can be. Its surface glows with ...

The formation of planets is a fascinating process. They usually originate in a disc of dust and gas surrounding stars. When particles come together, they form a clump, and through a process called ...