A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Triple conjunction of planets with moon entails planets Venus and Saturn in conjunction with Moon, which means the three ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Astronomers and philosophers have long speculated on the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars.  In the 1990s the ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary ... the two brown dwarfs – 2M1510 A and 2M1510 B – each have a mass around 35 times that ...

The radial velocity method watches for the telltale wobble as an orbiting planet tugs ... only a little bigger than Jupiter and thus much less bright than our Sun, the four planets all orbit ...

Have you ever seen a watch made of meteorite? ✓ Daan goes hands-on with Christiaan van der Klaauw's Grand Planetarium ...