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 ...

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.

Caribbean sounds help bring the Solar System to life and make space education more inclusive.

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky. On February 1, we should see the crescent moon in ...

In February 1995, a small research organisation known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...