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

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

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From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...

NASA’s Telescope have captured a stunning image of stars that resemble a bouquet of flowers ahead of Valentine’s Day.The ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...