Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWST team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

But the stars that Kepler observed bloomed with planets so close to their star that their orbits lasted just days or weeks. Nor were these worlds all small like our inner planets. The most common ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...