Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Preliminary results of a study presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna indicate that ...

A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one University of ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...

Extra-solar planets are among the most thrilling discoveries of our age. Just today, scientists using Spitzer space telescope data announced the first detection of infrared light from an extra-solar ...

A stunning alignment of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will occur this summer in a phenomenon called the 'parade of planets' NASA/Unsplash Point your eyes to the sky this June!

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

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

Nearly all of the planets in the solar system are about to march through the night sky in a single-file line. This planetary alignment, sometimes called a planet parade, will include all of the solar ...