An unusual old, hot Jupiter-like planet with a “puffy” atmosphere has been discovered in our galaxy, huddled around a distant ...

This week, we have another beautiful conjunction in the morning sky as the Moon slides by Saturn and its magnificent ring ...

Scientists with the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission released a fresh batch of breathtaking images of our universe this ...

A team at MIT discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe — 12 to 13 billion years old — hidden in the Milky Way’s ...

Gliese 12 b could be the nearest temperate world like our own located to date — but don’t book your travel tickets quite yet.

The Moon reaches Last Quarter as it travels past several planets in the sky this week. Plus, pick up a comet, star clusters, ...

Galactic archaeologists have discovered primordial streams of thousands of stars in the Milky Way that may be the genesis of ...

This Neptune-like world orbits a Sun-like star in a binary system, where conditions are right for liquid water to remain on ...

A new simulation of the Sun’s magnetic field may lead to a better understanding of solar storms and forewarning of a ...

Tracking down the name of the peak known as Undset, a feature with sharply cut facets that reflect the rising Sun’s rays.

A stellar-mass black hole would quickly tear you apart. But a person encountering a supermassive black hole could survive for ...

The Moon occults two bright stars along the ecliptic as we also enjoy comets, asteroids, and star clusters in the sky this ...