Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is hidden in our solar system.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Astronomers have revealed an exoplanet called Enaiposha to be a one-of-a-kind "super Venus" whose carbon-dioxide-rich ...

Setting aside academic jargon and state-of-the-art laboratories, science is simply the process of doing something and ...

The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.

The Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of West Virginia in Charleston, West Virginia is unveiling an exciting new ...

It started as another exoplanet in a group labeled “ordinary.” No one expected that a world, once thought to be a mini-Neptune, would reveal traits of a super-Venus and change how we see certain ...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), founded in 1820, encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science. The RAS organises ...

Astronomical seasons are based on the Earth’s position with respect to the Sun, as the planet makes its annual ... northernmost point in the sky at solar noon (around 1 p.m. local time due ...

The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own ... Lisa Grossman is the astronomy writer. She has a degree in astronomy from Cornell University and ...