One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

A star once thought empty was actually hiding a giant planet. New imaging and Gaia data exposed the surprising discovery of a ...

Illinois residents may have a chance to see the Perseid meteor shower this summer. He's where to look and when.

The visual journey unveils what the stars in the night sky truly are, using authentic images captured from Earth. With the ...

Five planets are retrograde in summer 2025: Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Mercury and Uranus. Astrologically, that means in for a ...

It's possible — the phenomenon is most visible from the northern hemisphere, according to the American Meteor Society. Its ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of the planets magnetic field. Data from the European Space Agency's Swarm ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...