February is packed full of celestial events including Mercury retrograde and a solar eclipse - here's what it could mean for ...
Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a rare prize: a world almost the size of Earth, circling a Sun-like star at a ...
A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...
For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the ...
A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with ...
Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a colossal missing piece of the Solar System, a giant planet that appears to ...
Stargazers across Washington state are in for a treat.
Many objects in space rotate. Earth completes a spin in roughly 24 hours, while Venus takes a whopping 243 Earth days. The moon's rotational period is about 27 days. The sun, it turns out, also ...
A rare planetary parade will march across the sky on Saturday, Feb. 28, according to NASA. Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, ...
Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.
Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.
Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.