Venus has been stealing the twilight show, glowing so fiercely that it can look like a misplaced aircraft or a distant beacon ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty of reasons to ...

NASA's ESCAPADE Mars probes embarked on a 'loiter' trajectory after launch, and scientists say that extra time in space could ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a planet so close to its star that it's stretched into the shape of a lemon.

A series of remarkable astronomical phenomena will be witnessed in 2026 and easily accessible through the International Astronomy Centre’s free ...

Three supermoons will lighten up the night skies in 2026, the stunning result when a full moon inches closer to Earth than ...

The year also features prime aurora viewing in January and two supermoons.

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...