On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

White dwarf stars could host habitable planets. Fast planetary rotation reduces cloud cover, keeping surface temperatures stable.

Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new giant "planet," plus a new brown dwarf.

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

Read A sky chart showing Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus in a "planet parade." Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech On most ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer ... and the peculiar architecture of the whole system. For this purpose, they observed this brown dwarf with KPIC at high spectral resolution.

Here is what you need to know about how to spot the rare seven-planet alignment – weather permitting. The eight major planets in our Solar System orbit ... in our night sky together, following ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.