Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Thus, these white dwarf stars can serve as unique, if distant, laboratories for studying the insides of demolished planets that are otherwise out of reach ... by the Milky Way-mapping Gaia ...

The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius ... be joined by the red planet. Although far from its best (opposition in December 2022), it will have astrophotographers out in force to take an image ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once.

A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the ...

The Moon is waning to a crescent and nowhere to be seen unless you’re out really late into the early hours. The arc of the Milky Way is visible ... the “king of planets”—at its brightest ...

A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

The night sky is putting on a celestial show with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet ...

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal clouds that appear to be raining down titanium droplets. Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 ...