Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

A UVic doctoral candidate led a new study that offers a clearer picture of how planets are born alongside stars, findings ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

This is the last time the seven planets will appear together in the night sky until 2040. Here's when it's happening – and ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The movie-themed restaurant chain Planet Hollywood, which shuttered its Times Square location during COVID, reopened at 136 West 42nd Street in Midtown this weekend after a $17 million investment.

Mercury is low in the southeast sky about an hour before sunrise and binoculars will help immensely to find the bright yellowish planet. It transitions to the evening sky in the southwest toward ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system developed with gas giants far from our sun, some planetary systems consist of ...

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...