This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Barnard’s Star is located just 6 light-years away from us. It is the closest single star to the Sun and the fourth closest ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup. The sight is extremely difficult to spot ...

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

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

Fellipe Abreu/Getty Images The planets are 20% to 30% the mass of Earth and make a full orbit around the sun in days, according to the paper. They are likely rocky planets, rather than gas.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...