Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

Neptune moved into Aries, kicking off a wild new chapter that will last until 2039. You may feel called to hit the gas on ...

WITH the UK set to hit highs of 23C next year, Brits will be looking for a great place to pitch up with a pint. So The Sun ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

The exoplanet K2-18b is generating headlines because researchers announced what could be evidence of life on the planet. The ...

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its eyes to space, capturing its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the ...

it really does orbit the sun alone. More distant objects, however, orbit the barycenter. Most objects generally remain the same distance from the sun. Comets, by contrast, follow highly eccentric ...