The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

Photoshop CC 2014 tutorial showing how to quickly create a vast star field and a celestial sphere amid faraway galaxies and ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the many planets currently in our night sky. You’ll see four of ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.