Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye. The six planets will be visible until February 9. You'll ...

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Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called a heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human eye as somewhat of a line across the visible horizon. Saturday is one of ...

This would make it the first known of its kind, a category astronomers are calling 'Super-Venus'. Enaiposha is one of the most studied exoplanets in the sky. It was discovered in 2009, with a mass and ...

Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn should be easily visible ... “But we are under a dryer, colder air mass right now,” Thaler said. “We are expecting the skies to be generally clear.