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 ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation.. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how planets form.

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

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

It’s another big week in the sky — astrologically and astronomically. Mars, our sacred masculine planet, enters Virgo, the ...