New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Known as the "Parade of Planets," the celestial event will feature appearances from Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune and ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night ...

With this answer comes more of an idea about where planets are likely to form in our galaxy. They have found that stars with high-mass planets have higher metallicity than those with lower amounts ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Jupiter would be in the middle, with the three planets forming something like a long arc in the sky. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are “bright and relatively easy to see” with the naked eye ...