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

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest ...

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

Astronomers have found a new super-Earth named TOI-1846 b. This planet is about twice the size of Earth. It orbits a red ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted TWA 7b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet around a nearby star ...

The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.

On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan declared its independence from Sudan and became Africa's 54th nation.

With the moon sitting low in the sky during this phase of its 18.6-year cycle, it's the perfect time to try capturing this ...

Astronomy’s latest trophy planet, TOI-4465 b, is a lumbering gas giant six times heavier than Jupiter. Its existence came to ...