Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.

James Webb Space Telescope captures HH 30’s disc, revealing dust movement, jets, and planetary formation processes.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...