Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a discovery that turns a once-theoretical idea into a measured reality. The planet ...

The biggest planet in our solar system is hovering over the North Carolina skyline throughout January, and stargazers will ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe ...

A new study led by WashU planetary scientists suggests the icy moon lacks the undersea activity needed to support life.

A rare alignment of two exoplanets with their star, marking one of the few known exosyzygies, an astronomical event involving ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth. Venus will align with the sun ...

A faint interstellar object detected in July 2025 has quietly reshaped how scientists and security planners view threats from ...