The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Mercury is happening on the opposite side of the solar system to where Earth is, ...

A new study published in Nature has revealed a rare glimpse into the early life of four young exoplanets orbiting the star ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

Unlike earlier studies, which often examined chemistry and atmospheric motion separately, the new simulations combined both.

Across the Milky Way, planets slightly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune appear around most stars. Yet our own solar ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

Orca whales delight Seattle onlookers with breaches and tail slaps in rare close encounter With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orca whales put on a show near Seattle on Friday. WSU president ...

Extra-solar planets are among the most thrilling discoveries of our age. Just today, scientists using Spitzer space telescope data announced the first detection of infrared light from an extra-solar ...

The planets of the solar system orbit the sun in a complex and ever-shifting ballet, which can see them appear as glorious ...