A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

Picture of the Month showcases the powerful telescope's ability to capture detailed resolution of even the tiniest of cosmic ...

Venus, Jupiter and Mars will dazzle in the night sky this month, giving stargazers of all levels a great show. The three ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...

Chorus waves, quick bursts of energy known to occur relatively close to Earth and around other planets, were found in an ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...