A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible ... Trace the Big Dipper's handle of stars in a curve to Arcturus, a bright, reddish star above ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

NASA reports that T Coronae Borealis, a white dwarf star 3,000 light-years away from the solar system, will likely ... curve of its handle to go "arc to Arcturus," locating the bright star in ...

Venus takes a tumble into the sunset this month, but that still leaves three bright planets to adorn the evening sky. Mars shines in the south after nightfall, with Saturn to the west and Jupiter ...

This star system is significant in the search for habitable exoplanets. Arcturus is the fourth brightest ... a dust ring orbiting it just like our Solar System has the Kuiper Belt.

Earth reaches aphelion, its farthest point from the sun, on July 6, when we’ll be 94.5 million miles from our parent star. But while giving the sun a wide berth, Earth cozies up to Mars in ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has caught the first-ever direct image of two planets outside the solar system orbiting an Earth-like star. The trio captured on camera ...