Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...
An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...
Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...
The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...
Although the occurrence climaxed on Jan. 21 with a conjunction—close alignment—of Saturn and Mercury, the planetary parade ...
A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...
Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers ...
Raised in the Lutheran church, Tycho was led to believe that the earth was the center of the universe, but his carefully ...