February: it’s a short month, and it’s also relatively short on stargazing highlights. Still, patient stargazers will be rewarded with a memorable planetary alignment. And for those readers joining us ...

Australian researchers have made a discovery of a potentially habitable planet 150 light years away - but there’s a catch to ...

A team of researchers at the University of Southern Queensland has discovered a potentially habitable planet 150 light-years ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s bright core returning to view in the Northern Hemisphere.

The new Doomsday Clock time has been set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Here’s what it means.

Anew study led by Robb Calder at the University of Cambridge suggests that nearly all known sub-Neptune exoplanets, ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is planning to celebrate the expected Artemis II launch mission during ...

Jupiter, king of our Solar System’s planets, continues to dominate the night sky in February.  Lying inside the zodiac constellation Gemini (twins), which sits well up in the eastern sky, it is the ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...