The search for a hidden giant lurking in the far reaches of the Solar System has captivated astronomers for decades. A new ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

The agency said that key components of the ambitious project, including the Long March 10 heavy-lift carrier rocket, the ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

This Friday right before sunrise, the moon, Venus and Saturn will create a smiley face in the eastern horizon for a brief ...

Venus and Saturn will align with a crescent moon to create the illusion of a smiley face in the sky on the morning of April ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

A team of researchers say they have found the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life. The suggestion of life has ...