According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Every now and then, space surprises us– and this time, the buzz is all about four small rocky planets found around one of our ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

the brightest of all stars. Mars continues to recede from Earth, so consequently the planet continues to gradually fade. Beginning April at magnitude +0.4, by month's end this orange-yellow world ...

Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...

There will be a large planetary alignment on Aug. 10, 2025, featuring Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system will be visible tonight in what’s been a really highly promoted event online. Malan is astronomy writer and presentation editor for the Enid ...

There are some simple ways to tell the difference between planets and stars without the use of a sky map. First of all, planets don't "twinkle" in the sky, but stars do. The light emitted by stars ...