Astronomers are tracking a rare interstellar object traveling at record speeds and passing unusually close to multiple ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, UK scientists have found an atmosphere on a red hot planet 280 light years away, in the ...

Scientists found a mysterious rogue planet roaming aimlessly outside our solar system. What if it came closer?

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Shining in the constellation Gemini near the bright stars Pollux and Castor, Jupiter's opposition is the best time to see the ...

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth. Venus will align with the sun ...

For Earth to be born, our solar system needed certain isotopes which could only be formed by supernovae. But, shouldn't such ...

Pandora, a University of Arizona satellite, is locked and loaded for launch into space, which is just hours away.