Have you ever looked into the stars in the night sky and asked yourself questions like “What else is out there?” The universe or our solar system consists of eight planets that go round a very big and ...

Six planets will stretch across the pre-dawn sky during mid-August, offering early risers a chance to see Mercury, Venus, ...

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From a marathon milestone on Mars to a sky filled with satellite trails above Chile’s deserts, this week’s collection ...

A predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, a returning comet, a great chance to see the Milky Way, and Saturn's rings at a new angle.

The moon and Saturn will appear very close to each other Tuesday evening. Skywatchers will be able to see this conjunction ...

The search for life beyond Earth has always been full of surprises. Strange radio signals have sparked excitement. Odd gases on distant worlds have raised questions. Even ordinary objects have been ...

"No single telescope tells the whole story. Discoveries build over time, and new observatories expand on the foundations laid ...

New observations of WD 1856 b, a gas giant closely orbiting a white dwarf, offer a preview of what could happen to Jupiter ...

Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...