Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

In a significant development, a team of scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, have discovered a ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

An artist's impression of the exoplanet Gaia-4b orbiting its star, tracing the shape of its orbit. | Credit ... thanks to the way the planet's gravity drags its star around on its journey through ...

W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more ...

Because Gaia precisely tracked the motion of stars -- a technique known as astrometry -- thousands of new objects are expected to be discovered in its data. A planet in orbit around a star creates ...

These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second. There is another star that is almost as ...