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

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

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Mark your calendars, place your bets, grease your palms, blink open that third eye, and ready your wishes, my babies ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. Listen to this article · 5:18 min Learn more.

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not ...

WASHINGTON >> Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a ...

On Earth, depending on where you are, the analemma can be at different angles, though it always traces out this ...