As cool as it'd be to see Star Fox in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, I do have worries about our first look at the character ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

The Griffith Observatory in California had a great view of the Mars-Moon occultation. See the Red Planet slip behind the moon and re-emerge in this time-lapse. Credit: Griffith Observatory | edited by ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

Most of us have spent a few minutes staring at the night sky wondering what it would be like to […] ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.

A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.

Astronomers have finally figured out how the most common types of planets in our galaxy are formed—by watching a set of baby planets grow up in real time. These worlds, found in a young star system ...

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...