Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of scientists from the Universities of Montreal, ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

Solar system is a collection of various celestial bodies that are held together by the gravitational pull of the sun. Our ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday.

Dust devils form when the planet’s surface heats up, pushing hot air close to the ground rapidly up through cooler air above.

Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as the planet’s original ...