TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Explore the vastness of the Solar System in this video, which accurately showcases the relative sizes of the planets and their actual distances from the Sun.

The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said. There is huge variety across these distant worlds, the space agency says, with ...

The source of enigmatic circles on the surface of Earth’s closest relative in solar system revealed in new paper Coronae marked in dark green pock Venus' surface amid larger and taller rises marked in ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Planetary size was determined pre-spacecraft by measuring the planet's angular diameter and its distance from Earth (in AU, later converted to terrestrial units after the AU was accurately measured ...

A giant planet the size of Saturn orbiting a sun-like star has potentially been identified in our nearest neighbouring stellar system, Alpha Centauri. At just four light years from Earth, Alpha ...

Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own Sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...