Six planets will align in February as part of a rare planetary parade. Find out how and when you can see the event.

BBC iPlayer is a treasure-trove of music documentaries, myth-making live performances and long-buried archive footage.

"Uranus's magnetosphere is one of the strangest in the solar system," Paola Tiranti, a researcher at Northumbria University in the U.K., said in a statement. "It's tilted and offset from the planet's ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

Video footage shows multiple police vehicles at Sandringham Farm following the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The vehicles were seen arriving at the estate as authorities carried out their ...

A catastrophic avalanche in the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern California has killed at least eight. Dangerous weather conditions have prevented rescue efforts to find one other backcountry skier ...

Deep inside New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns, scientists found vivid green microbes thriving without sunlight, using near ...

When NASA’s Juno spacecraft began its close passes over Jupiter, scientists expected to confirm long-standing theories.

Planetes is a cult classic anime that changed how we think of sci-fi. The beloved series is now available to stream on Crunchyroll.

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...