Astronomers are gathering evidence of a massive hidden planet lurking beyond Neptune. Trump Cuts Millions After California ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

Sacramento State’s planetarium coordinator Kyle Watters shares how he developed a passion for astronomy and what audiences can expect during the upcoming planetarium shows on Oct. 24-26.

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Sci-fi movies and TV shows love to place a planet inside a binary system. In reality, a planet shouldn’t be able go around ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress often comes from data that don’t fit our current understanding. This idea, ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.