Dr. James O’Donoghue, a Japan-based planetary scientist, has made some incredible educational astronomy videos before. Including a video that showcases relative cosmic velocities to understand better ...

Our solar system officially houses eight planets, but some scientists say there could be a ninth. And that’s not just Pluto aficionados – evidence suggests a huge undiscovered world lurks on the dark ...

European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

Shooting stars are one of the most awe-inspiring astronomical events we can witness regularly. Meteor showers recur every year and they are named after the constellation they seem to originate from.

NASA reports more than 400 gas giants – large gas planets like Jupiter or Saturn – have been discovered outside of Earth's solar system. However, the possibility that a gas planet could exist in the ...

Alien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water, leaving behind hot, dry worlds like Venus, researchers said. These findings might significantly affect searches ...

Shedding light on the gravity of the situation. Most people do not realize that many of the stars and heavenly bodies they see in the sky no longer exist. In fact, many have ceased to exist for ...