The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Learn about the life and scientific contributions of Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer known for his laws of ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

With some creative use of the James Webb Space Telescope, Canadian researchers are now able to study two young planets as ...

Astronomers may have discovered the fastest-moving planet system ever found, moving through our galaxy at speeds of at least ...

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

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...