The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

Named TOI-4465 b, the exoplanet caught astronomers' attention as it acts as a bridge between scorching gas giants and ice ...

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? May holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

Dreamy planet Neptune entered the fire sign Aries on March 30, marking the start of a 14-year-long spiritual journey for all zodiac signs.

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

The planet’s orbit is made even stranger by the fact that it is “backwards”: TIC 241249530 travels in the opposite direction to its star’s rotation.

The gas giants in our solar system—Jupiter and Saturn, along with their ice giant cousins Uranus and Neptune—orbit far from the sun. However, that’s not the case for some of the giant ...