The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

According to NASA, four to five planets being visible across the sky at the same time happens only once every few years.

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most data ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Elon Musk recently said he is “not chomping at the bit to acquire TikTok.” Musk made those remarks during an interview at the ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system, nearly ...

Sunsets in February will end with a bonus throughout the month: Every planet in the solar system will be visible ... of the moon in relation to the background stars.” The best time for viewing ...

The brightest planets in January's night sky: How to see them (and when) Monthly skywatching information is provided to Space.com by Chris Vaughan of Starry Night Education, the leader in space ...

All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see catastrophic effects in the next few years, ...

A space telescope would capture an image of a planet when it’s between Starshade ... on a quiet zone in the radio spectrum, free of background noise from the galaxy. It made sense to search ...

"Because most solar system moons rotate very slowly (keeping the same face towards their planet as they orbit ... Her educational background consists of a master's degree in biology from the ...