Beyond the asteroid belt lies a vast region dominated by giant planets and frozen worlds. This video explores the colossal ...

Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting ...

The inner solar system is home to four rocky worlds that formed under the intense heat of the young Sun. This video explores Mercury, the scarred planet that is slowly shrinking; Venus, where a ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

The takeaway: An international team of astronomers has published a study on LHS 1903, a red dwarf star hosting a truly unusual planetary system. Unlike our solar system and many previously discovered ...

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

Ready to trade that shovel for a telescope? There's something headed to the Garden State this weekend and no — it's not snow! The first celestial event of the year is on the horizon and this time it's ...

The Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more ...

Venus and Saturn are due up for a visually striking event known as a planetary conjunction. Here's everything to know about ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...