By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

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

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

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

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

Known as the "Parade of Planets," the celestial event will feature appearances from Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune and ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.