Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

Astronomers have found a super-Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years ... in a star’s movement caused by orbiting planets. The breakthrough was made ...

Proctor/J. Pollard Just 5.96 light-years from Earth sits Barnard's Star, a red dwarf with a fifth of the Sun's diameter and even less of its mass. Considered a solitary star for its lack of ...

Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth, has been found to have four tiny planets in its orbit in an 'exciting' discovery by astronomers. Each of the four discovered planets are ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. The four planets, each only about ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia ...

There are 11,905 satellites circling Earth — 7,356 in low orbit — according to the tracking website Orbiting Now. Satellites are critical for communications, navigation, weather forecasting ...