To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Most disks observed were about 30 astronomical units wide, roughly 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. The presence of intricate structures in such early systems implies a parallel evolution of infant ...

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. A vast universe Think ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations ...

“We also find an approximately 0.3 percent chance that Mars will be lost through collision or ejection and an approximately 0 ...

Long-exposure photos make the Milky Way's bright stars and dark dust clouds even clearer. June also brings the summer solstice. This is when the Sun is above the horizon longer than any other day ...

Under the assumption that planetary dust particles can escape from the gravitational attraction of a planet, we consider the possibility of the dust grains leaving the star’s system by means of ...

Red dwarfs are the most common kind of star in the universe, so they alone could possibly explain all the low-mass ejected planets we see. Stars like the sun might eject many planets as well, but ...

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.