Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

The new moon in Taurus occurs on April 27 at 3:31 p.m. ET. We won’t see the moon in its effervescent glory, since its ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

How common are super-Earth exoplanets throughout the universe? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to ...

Don Pettit has returned to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station, wrapping up a journey ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the sun rises Friday, as three celestial bodies will appear ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

NASA may have just found our second Earth - a planet so similar, it could be habitable for humans. But this is just the beginning. Thanks to powerful telescopes and new detection methods, scientists ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

The reality is, Venus will be larger and brighter. Saturn will be smaller and dimmer. These two planets would depict the ...