As sustainability initiatives in other industries stall out, big acts like Coldplay, Dave Matthews, and Billie Eilish are ...

Finding an exoplanet in a star’s habitable zone always generates interest. Each of these planets has a chance, even if it’s ...

To misquote Hamlet, there seems to be more types of planets across the heavens than have been dreamt in our astronomy before the advent of dedicated planet-hunting telescopes. In the Solar System, we ...

The marvelous Eise Eisinga Planetarium, the world’s oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world, dating from 1781, ...

First Steps playing in many theaters across the globe, we're explaining how the movie's final act plays out and what you can ...

Astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a young (20 Myr old) transiting exoplanet and found it to be unusually clear and puffy. By analyzing the planet's atmospheric features, they were able ...

Even today, this icy, ringed oddball continues to keep scientists guessing. Uranus spins sideways, so each pole gets blasted ...

Just 39 light-years away, the Trappist-1 system hosts seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a dim red dwarf star,three of which lie within the habitable zone. These alien worlds may harbor the ...

A hidden planet up to 10 times the size of Jupiter was found in the disc around MP Mus, thanks to new data from ALMA and Gaia ...

A star once thought empty was actually hiding a giant planet. New imaging and Gaia data exposed the surprising discovery of a massive world forming in a swirling disc of gas.

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...