The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

Satellites have managed to detect faint electromagnetic signals generated by ocean tides, suggesting that space-born sensors ...

It is not just within our Solar System that planet alignments are useful. Astronomers use alignments to probe many different ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky ... Read more This mind-blowing map shows ...

Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

The extreme supersonic winds of WASP-127b are more than 60 times faster than the fastest winds ever observed on Earth ...

With a speed of 9 km per second (33 000 km/h), this is the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured in the Universe ... of clouds on a planet outside our solar system. Now, astronomers have ...

Almost a decade after its controversial launch nearly killed any prospects at long-term success, No Man's Sky is gearing up ...