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

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

17, 2025 — Astrophysicists have imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average ...

Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, around 134 light-years away from Earth. Listen to Story Gaia-4b is about twelve times more massive than Jupiter Gaia-5b is a brown ... It completes a revolution around ...

Hot Jupiters are planets with masses similar to that of Jupiter, but orbit close to their star, at a much smaller distance than Mercury is to the Sun. It is difficult for ... that Hot Jupiters were ...