Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer ...

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

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

This week sees a special stargazing event, as as up to six planets will be visible in a line in the night sky.

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

If you missed seeing the alignment of six planets in the sky in January, don't worry. Another one is coming up in February.

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

MY sister, Lilibeth, and I were looking at the stars one night and noticing how big Venus was over the tall tree fronting our porch. Not the western or eastern hemisphere of heaven but the massive ...

Some scientists are throwing out this mind-bending idea that dinosaurs might still be kicking it on other planets out there. We're talking about planets with conditions similar to Earth, where life ...