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

Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to make a planet and other celestial spheres caught at the instant it explodes ...

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

As our planet gets less habitable, the idea has popped up of moving to Mars while we give it a good scrub. ‘The Little Prince ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

It’s been pretty cold recently, so you may need to channel your inner polar bear to get a good view of the ongoing planetary alignment this month. In the coming weeks, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, ...

A light echo is created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of dust and causing them to shine in an ever-expanding pattern.

Only after that could rocky planets form, and by extension, habitable planets. That’s been axiomatic in astronomy.