Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

The Solar System is very tidy. You have four rocky planets near the Sun, and four gas giant planets further away. An asteroid ...

MIT astronomers estimate a planet 140 light-years from Earth may disintegrate fully within the next 1 to 2 million years.

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star ...

It wasn’t until NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its eye to the scene that the story took an unexpected turn.

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...