If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

Humans have never set foot on Mars, but Musk and SpaceX have set a goal to get over this obstacle by the dawn of the next ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet ... This "blinking" between images allowed the astronomer to note tiny differences between the photos ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Thankfully, a NASA scientist has now given a brutal but basic response to the age-old question, which surely even the most determined conspiracy theorist can't disprove. Dr James Garvin, chief ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

"Even with phones, like the modern Androids or iPhones, you can set that sucker up to take a sequence of images and catch the entire eclipse." "We had a planet ... to be your big one," Cooke ...