With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

Don't put your binoculars away just yet, the planet parade continues through February. Here's which planets will be visible this month.

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

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...

Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...