In August 2025, skywatchers will be treated to a planet parade like no other, with six planets and the Moon visible in the ...

We've seen alien xenomorphs on spaceships and far-off planets, but we've never seen them here on our own turf -- until now.

A team of astronomers led by Macquarie University has monitored the orbital decay of an extreme exoplanet to gain new ...

Five planets are retrograde in summer 2025: Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Mercury and Uranus. Astrologically, that means in for a ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

In an unprecedented breakthrough, an international team of astronomers has successfully captured, for the first time, the ...

Until now, it was unclear whether the conditions around a nascent star were too extreme to allow the building blocks of life ...

In a cosmic first, McClure and her team stared deep into the gas disk around the baby star and detected solid specks ...

A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets will line up and light up the night sky this week, folks. Just after sunset on Feb. 28, 2025, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ...