Social planets Jupiter and Saturn oversee growth and discipline, and outer planets Uranus ... It influences one’s inner world, nurturing instincts, and how they respond emotionally to life ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

Inner planets are the four planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are collectively characterized by a solid surface and small size relative to the outer gas giants.

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

The best time to visit the Outer Banks is between March and May or September and November, when lodging rates drop and crowds dissipate. Most mainland North Carolina residents and out-of-towners ...