Uranus and Neptune may soon lose their reputation as the "boring" planets of the solar system. Long overshadowed by the grandeur of Jupiter and Saturn, scientists now believe that beneath their thick, ...

Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune’s largest moon still remains a mystery. A flyby by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989 offered a quick ...

Scorching planets that should be bone-dry may actually create their own water deep inside, forging oceans through molten rock ...

Since the dawn of man, humans have looked up to the night sky, wondering what exactly they were looking at. Although many ancient societies mapped the skies with remarkable precision, they had little ...