Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

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Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in this area are chucking out six times the energy being produced by all ...

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

The latest update for Sins of a Solar Empire 2 brings some icy variety to the galaxy, adds new ship artifacts, and tweaks the game's AI.

It’s not every day you can step out your front door and see half the solar system with the naked eye. That’s the spectacle visible in Toronto and across Canada right now, as Venus, Saturn ...

Uranus and Neptune can be spotted too, but only by using binoculars and telescopes Look up! Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s known as a "planetary parade," and most will be able ...