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 ...

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Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to ...

When people speak of the northern lights, they are typically referring to Earth’s spectacular display of aurora borealis: ...

THE year 2025 will be remembered not as an anomaly but as a juridical moment for the climate era: science no longer merely ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

Bill Nye “The Science Guy” is stepping down as CEO of Pasadena’s Planetary Society after 15 years at the helm, but he’s not ...

Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip ...

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