Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...

between LS1 and our planet. The mass of the galaxy cluster caused distant light from LS1 to bend around it, magnifying the light of the background star by 2,000 times, thereby allowing the Hubble ...

reaching greatest brilliancy this evening at 6 P.M. EST Earth's sister planet is now a long-lingering "evening star," shining at magnitude –4.9 and some 40° high in the western sky at sunset.

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

Auroras occur when electrically charged particles from space enter and collide with molecules in the atmosphere.

The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed exoplanets, HD 20794 d in particular, recently attracted attention for a unique ...

“The planet KOI-442 AKA Ash sparked the curiosity of humanity from the farthest reaches of the cosmos ... RLJE Films/Richard Bluck Ash, which co-stars Iko Uwais, Kate Elliott, Beulah Koale ...

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal clouds that appear to be raining down titanium droplets. Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 ...

Those three will be the stars of the show ... "Neptune and Uranus are two of the farthest planets from our Earth, and because of that they are really, really dim, especially when you're living ...

As the innermost planet, Mercury rarely peeks out beyond the sun, but it will be at its farthest distance this ... astronomy apps can help you locate stars, planets and constellations.