This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South ...

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

If that’s too long to wait, two total lunar eclipses are also coming, one in September and another next March. Unlike total ...

After sunset on April 2, look for the crescent moon and Jupiter in the western sky. The duo will appear within a palm’s width ...

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...

MORE than 1,000 people have been killed after a massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake ripped through Myanmar – with frantic rescue ...

For centuries, humans have wondered if planets exist around other stars and dreamed of ... nor were they orbiting a star like the sun, but they were confirmed to exist. It was the first evidence ...