Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term habitability.

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In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and watch a close pairing of two naked-eye planets: Venus and Saturn. The ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Extractable water near the south pole of our closest celestial neighbor promises a new spark for future space explorers.

After exploding, the craft sent blazing debris across the sky and forced multiple aircraft flying over and near the Caribbean ...