February: it’s a short month, and it’s also relatively short on stargazing highlights. Still, patient stargazers will be rewarded with a memorable planetary alignment. And for those readers joining us ...

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

When people speak of the northern lights, they are typically referring to Earth’s spectacular display of aurora borealis: ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

THE year 2025 will be remembered not as an anomaly but as a juridical moment for the climate era: science no longer merely ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

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“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

Bill Nye “The Science Guy” is stepping down as CEO of Pasadena’s Planetary Society after 15 years at the helm, but he’s not ...