Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the +0.6-magnitude planet is low in the west-northwest and sets during twilight about 1.5 ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

F iguring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

European Space Agency ESA is getting ready to launch in 2026 a terrestrial planets exploration tool called PLAnetary Transits ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...