The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s ...

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Now, four small planets have ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

making it a significant step forward as astronomers search for Earth-mass planets around sun-like stars, Basant said. “A lot of what we do can be incremental, and it’s sometimes hard to see ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

In the coming days ahead, if any of your friends or relatives remark to you that they saw a "strange UFO" on the way to work ...

A waxing Moon brightens the sky as we catch our last looks at Uranus and view Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars in the sky ...