Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

W hat Michelle Yeoh offers as a star, on the surface, is exactly what Star Trek needs. In the early years of her career — ...

A historic solar storm in May 2024 not only triggered spectacular auroras but also created two new temporary radiation belts ...

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

Astronomers were left red-faced after announcing the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid, only to discover that the ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a young star’s protoplanetary disk. Using ALMA, researchers observed how dust ...

Experts recommend looking toward the southwest horizon to see the planets. You can see six planets for most of the month with a chance for a bonus from Mercury at the end of February.