A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Scientists have detected planet-forming pebbles around two young stars, providing insight into the birth of solar systems ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

The flares may heat up and inflate the planet's atmosphere, which is dominated by hydrogen and helium. Being lashed by these ...

Uranus enters Gemini for the first time since World War II. Sobering, right? Especially considering the current waves of ...

There are retrogrades that simply slow us down, and then there are retrogrades that ask us to stop, feel, and re-evaluate ...

Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...

While examining the patterns of history in the U.S., it is notable that when Uranus was in Gemini, the country was at war.

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...