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

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt ... a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic ...

A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...

Want a really close-up look at Mercury? Then check out these stunning images captured during a recently flyby of the planet by the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft.

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

Recent research led by Lowell Observatory found information about how planets are formed through studying the DF Tau binary star system. The study combined data from the Atacama Large Millimeter ...

Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the next edition. Each month, WTOP is showcasing the best the sky has to offer stargazers regarding the moon, planets and stars.

You'll be able to easily see four planets in the February evening sky, and with any luck you'll be able to raise that number to five during the final week of the month. You'll be able to easily ...

Star Conflict is a free MMO that sees pilots clash amid asteroid belts and above planets in fast ... Not to be confused with The Outer Worlds – another awesome space game from 2019 that we ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed ... ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually ...

Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, was published in the scientific journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Located approximately 19.7 light-years away from Earth in the Eridanus constellation, the exoplanet is ...