Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

The near miss by the large Apophis asteroid in April 2029 offers NASA a golden—and exceedingly rare—opportunity to observe ...

Friday, July 4 Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, standing 26° from our star at 1 A.M. EDT. We’ll ...

For the first time since its launch on Christmas Day 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new exoplanet, TWA ...

Mars appears low in the western sky for an hour or two after sunset throughout July. Spotting it will be easier with ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.

See the Red Planet slip behind the moon and re-emerge in this time-lapse. Credit: Griffith Observatory | edited by Space.com's edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Into the Forest I Go by David Celeste / co ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...

Foreshadowing the great reflecting telescopes of the last century and a half, Lord Rosse managed in 1845 to erect a mighty ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

On June 25, the sun in Cancer will form a productive sextile to Mars in Virgo, creating a perfect synergy for revelatory ...