An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...
So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...
Three supermoons will lighten up the night skies in 2026, the stunning result when a full moon inches closer to Earth than ...
Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did ...
From signs of life on Mars to an interstellar visitor and weakening dark energy, 2025 reshaped space science, raising the ...
The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...
The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts ...
A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...
Nothing manmade has reached further from Earth than the Voyager series of spacecraft. Hurtling away from the sun at 38,000 miles an hour, the duo have now traveled over 12 billion miles, with Voyager ...
This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a few hundred million years, but what if we made it happen much quicker. And ...
For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as the ...