Scientists have recently focused their telescopes on a mysterious planet drifting through space, a discovery that has ...

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Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

The comet will make its closest approach to Earth Tuesday, but Monday may be the best evening to see it. Come Monday around sunset, Teddy Kareta plans to ascend to the roof of a building near ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Radio astronomy opens a window onto the invisible universe. While our eyes can detect visible light, countless objects in ...

A natural satellite is simply a celestial object that orbits a planet or a smaller body. Unlike the ones we build and send up ...