Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

Get ready to explore the Red Planet — our dusty, windswept neighbor that's captured human imagination for centuries. Mars is ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

But it’s not just looks. Rocky composition, general size, orbital behaviors—a lot of those qualities can be the same on both ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

Is Jupiter secretly planning to vanish? Recent research implies that given the proper cosmic conditions, a gas giant would ...

According to new information on SkySafari 6 Pro, a program used to predict the placement of stars and planets, Thursday, Aug.

Astronomers discover GJ 2126 b, a giant planet with an extremely eccentric orbit, 124 light-years away, using HARPS data.

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

The unexpected detection of a new planet has been hailed as a “remarkable discovery” by Irish astronomers who were involved ...

With a diameter of 1,440 miles, Pluto is farthest from the sun. While major planets make roughly circular orbits, Pluto ...