On July 3, 2025, at 3:54 pm ET, the Earth will officially reach its furthest point from the Sun for this year. This is called ...

Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

Something incredibly strange is happening in our cosmic neighborhood: a mysterious gravitational disturbance is hurtling Jupiter toward the Sun. If it sounds like science fiction, that’s because ...

Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...