Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

Jupiter, as always, is a dazzling object, shining among the stars of Gemini the Twins. It reaches opposition on Jan. 10; this ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...

Marvel’s planets look spectacular—but could any of them actually exist? This video puts the MCU’s alien worlds under the ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

Until now, researchers have struggled to understand where these planets actually come from. Now, however, researchers have ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting ...