Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

Astronomers are gathering evidence of a massive hidden planet lurking beyond Neptune. Pierce Brosnan seen with son ...

While 3I/ATLAS is getting all the attention, there are a number of other comets visible through telescopes and binoculars in ...

A new survey of 500,000 stars finds only 0.28% host close-in giants, showing how aging Sun-like stars drag their planets to destruction.

TOI-2267 is made up of two small and cool stars. The team confirmed the presence of two exoplanets, and there is strong evidence for the presence of a third one. The two stars are not next to each ...

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

A scientist spotted the asteroid hiding in the light of the sun. It's not an imminent threat to Earth, but other space rocks like it could be. A newly found space rock almost broke a speed record. The ...