Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

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The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.

Starting Monday, Feb. 3, the day after Groundhog Day, you should be able to see another planetary parade in the night sky, this time joined by the crescent moon. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune ...

Will the Lower Hudson Valley be able to see these celestial spectacles Feb. 1 and 3? It depends on the weather.

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

Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu contain “basic building blocks” for life, offering new insights. The samples suggest ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...