Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Dinosaurs may have gazed upon a sky subtly different from our familiar blue, according to NASA scientist Jessie Christiansen.

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have detected a rare exoplanet located at the very edge of the Milky Way galaxy, ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

Present-day disk galaxies often contain a thick, star-filled outer disk and an embedded thin disk of stars. For instance, our ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

A theory by Albert Einstein has helped astronomers discover a rare exoplanet, sparking new ideas of where they can be found.