Most of Titan’s surface is oddly flat and smooth, and it may be because it is coated by as much as a metre of fluffy organic material that snowed down from the icy moon’s thick atmosphere ...

Venus has a hazy lower atmosphere. New research suggests that it is caused by cosmic dust, fragments of shooting stars.

A newly-discovered planet named Enaiposha, GJ 1214 b, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a ...

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet’s acidic clouds is comprised of particles from outer space.

While India's interplanetary ambitions remain significant, the current pace of financial and technical progress raises ...