The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

A quirk of planetary positions will make Saturn's 200,000-mile-around rings disappear for one night on March 23. Plan ahead, ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Recent experiments to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth have raised questions about whether investors are being ...

While last night on Earth we got a lunar eclipse, the Blue Ghost lander on the moon saw the opposite - a solar eclipse.

A total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon thanks to the red or orange tinge it takes on from sunlight filtering ...

Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

While forecasts called for cloudy skies on Friday morning during a total lunar eclipse, clear skies provided a spectacular ...

ESA’s Hera probe captures stunning images of Mars and its moon Deimos during a historic flyby, offering new insights into the ...

Stargazers had a sight to behold overnight Thursday as a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse flushed the moon red across the Western Hemisphere ...