Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists ...

The majority were discovered by the Kepler space telescope ... of actually going to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, which includes the rocky planet Proxima b. Appreciating the magnitude ...

So far this MLB offseason, the reigning champion Dodgers have signed as many free agents as the rest of their division ...

Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Don't put your binoculars away just yet, the planet parade continues through February. Here's which planets will be visible ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.