With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

Around 16-17 June, Mars will appear to pass close to Regulus, the bright star at the heart of the constellation Leo, the lion ...

In the years since, we have found thousands of them, shattering what we thought we knew about planets. It turns out that planetary systems in our galaxy exhibit remarkable diversity—some have ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into space ...

And yes, they'll be in a line. But because planets always appear in a line from our Earth-bound vantage, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common, according to astronomers ...

While this parade of planets will appear to be huddled together in one small part of the sky, the distant worlds are of course spread out across a vast expanse of space, separated from each other ...

"Uranus and Neptune, two very distant ice giant planets out in our solar system, are also there in the sky," Dyches said. "But they are very faint." MORE: This is how close NASA's Parker Solar ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. "Any time you have at least three bright, easy-to-find planets, that’s a good time to go out and enjoy the view," Michael Shanahan, the director of ...

If two planets get too close to each other, the interaction can cause one (usually the less massive of the two) to gain a lot of orbital energy, causing it to be flung out of the system.

Those who are closest to me know that I love going out with my phone and shooting pics of the night sky. When it comes to stars and planets, all I get are dots. They are so very far away ...