A rare celestial phenomenon sees seven planets appear in a small area of sky over Chile:: Luis Chavarria Garrido, Chilean ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, ...

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

Behold the mysterious objects populating the "low surface brightness universe" that the latest radio telescopes are beginning ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets orbiting the star PDS 70. These "baby planets" are surrounded by dust rings ...

Residents in Tampa Bay, Florida were confounded after seeing what seemed to be an explosion in the sky around Thursday’s sunset.

Residents in Tampa Bay were confounded after seeing what seemed to be an explosion in the sky around Thursday’s sunset.

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...