Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

At the end of 2024, an Indian rocket took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the east coast of India, carrying, among ...

A strange planetary system called TOI-201 is changing in real time, with three very different worlds pulling on each other.

The LHS 1903 system defies expectations with a rocky outer planet, prompting new ideas about how planets form and evolve.

For several days this month, Saturn, Mars, and Mercury appear just degrees apart before sunrise—close enough to watch their ...

An international team including the University of Bern (UNIBE) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), members of the National Center of Competence in Research PlanetS, has succeeded in mapping the ...

The global climate has changed drastically over the course of the 58 years that separate these two photographs of planet Earth.

It had been 53 years, 3 months and 17 days since the Apollo 17 crew left lunar orbit, headed back to Earth and ended an era. But a new era has finally begun with the Wednesday launch of the Artemis II ...

The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in ...