NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Up next is another brief intermission from the customary woe of the lonely man in space, courtesy of the legendary Bong ...

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to ... which allows astronomers to see fainter objects farther into space. Located atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high ...

The Euclid space telescope has dropped its first data and deep field observations showing millions of galaxies in great ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander marks the first fully successful commercial moon mission, achieving all objectives and ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Now, four small planets have ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could all be visible with clear skies, but not all can be seen by the naked eye, according to ... just as Earth does. Every planet orbits ...

It was only a few days ago that a certain fear-mongering website named, ahem, Ars Technica published an article about the prospect of a killer asteroid striking the planet Earth in the year 2032.

While it won’t be easy to see ... Earth. And while the planets appearing to align isn't particularly special, seeing four or five bright planets at once doesn't happen every year, the space ...

Europe's Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, has ...

A rare celestial event on Feb. 28 will offer skywatchers the chance to witness a "planet parade" of all seven planets in our solar system outside of Earth ... in space, and we can see them ...