Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

Jupiter and Mars will appear to make ultraclose approaches to the moon on two nights this week. Here's how to get the best ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

A person shines a flashlight into the night sky on Feb. 3, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) Social media has been abuzz about the ongoing alignment of planets, with ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

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

A Month of Bright Planets - some highlights in February 2025 - Venus blazes its brightest in the early evening Mars and ...

Understanding how and when Earth, Jupiter, other planets in the Solar System, and numerous exoplanets formed within our ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Their research reveals which Earthly 'technosignatures' would be easiest to detect from a planet across the galaxy.

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...