The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

Exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s is an unusual polar orbit of a pair of brown dwarfs. Credit: ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner. Editing: Angelos Tsaousis. Web and technical support: ...

For anyone in Hawaiʻi this weekend, the sky offers a rare show. Saturn, the ringed giant, will rise bright in the evening and ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely ...

The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

Importantly, the 6,000 figure is continuously updated as astronomers around the world confirm new planets, meaning no single planet is officially the 6,000th.

While opposition itself is a one-night event, taking place on Sept. 21, Saturn's glow won't fade quickly. The planet will ...