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A red moon will be visible tonight from North and South America, and Western Europe. Just a few hours later the planets Venus and Jupiter will pass very closely ...
Skyzagers thrilled by the total lunar eclipse on January 21 are now excited to see Jupiter and Venus close to each other. Less than 24 hours after the Full Moon ...
Deep in outer space, two powerful storms brewed near Jupiter's iconic Red Spot. And the planet's colorful, swirling clouds became even more mesmerizing — a ...
When exploring other planets and celestial bodies, NASA missions are required to abide by the practice known as "planetary protection." This practice states that ...
Two planets are visible in the early morning well before sunrise and impressive shining amid the light of dawn.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists announced this week at the annual ...
The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to the day's news on the science, technology, discoveries, and events changing our planet and the future of the human ...
New data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft may solved a longstanding mystery. The length of a day on Saturn: 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds.
One possible reason we might not have found E.T. yet is that he might be a breath of "*fresh* air." A new study published in December suggests that exoplanets ...
Late last year, astronomers announced that they'd found a super-Earth around Barnard's star – one of the closest suns to our own. The discovery of a planet just ...
Planets between the size of Neptune and Saturn shouldn't be rare after all, scientists realize, thanks to a trick of magnification.
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) - Memphis will be in the spotlight on Super Bowl Sunday thanks to a four-legged ball of fluff. Melody will “play” in Animal Planet's Puppy ...
New studies are challenging the core accretion theory, the primary model astronomers use to understand how worlds form in our solar system and beyond.
HOURS after the Super Blood Wolf Moon has risen in the night sky, an incredible conjunction of planets Jupiter and Venus will be visible.
This is a moon that orbits a planet found outside our solar system. Planets that orbit stars other than our sun, such as Alpha Centauri, are known as exoplanets.
'Planetary health diet' would prevent millions of deaths a year and avoid climate change.
Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored — the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed ...
A planet near our own could support primitive life, scientists have announced. The nearby world – orbiting around Barnard's Star, the second closest star system ...
The New Year's Day mission will see a robotic probe reach an unknown frozen dwarf planet in the “farthest exploration ever”. Known as the Kuiper Belt it is ...
ALIENS could live on a planet which is not too far from Earth as scientists believe they have made a major breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrials.
Red dwarfs may not be great places to find life-supporting planets. The stars might blow all the water and chemical building blocks away.
Jupiter and Venus will shine bright together before dawn on Tuesday in an astronomical event known as a conjunction.
A dog from the Human Society of Memphis and Shelby County is getting national attention.
Alignments always said to foretell end of the world so what does this coming astronomical event mean?
Exoplanet surveys have yielded many surprises over the years, and the discovery of "disintegrating" exoplanets was one of them. These are planets that ...
There's a rocky planet in our stellar neighborhood that's very big and cold. However, scientists argue, it might still hold life.
An international team of astronomers has found a 'super-Earth' exoplanet orbiting HD 285181, a 3.7-billion-year-old solar-type star approximately 294 ...
Launch date aims to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the UAE.
Barnard b (or GJ 699 b) is a recently discovered Super-Earth planet orbiting Barnard's Star, making it the second nearest star system to the Earth. Although likely ...
Jupiter and Venus still dominate the early morning sky as Mercury becomes more challenging to find.
As 2018 comes to a close, Astrobiology Magazine is counting down our 'Top 10' stories for the year. At number 9: The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not ...
Scientists are applying climate models to distant planets to determine their habitability.
If you train your eyes on the moon starting at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, you'll see something a little different — a blood moon.
Last year was the hottest for the planet's oceans since global records began in 1958, according to an international team of scientists who track the data.
Untold numbers of alien civilizations may have been snuffed out by underestimating the ravages of natural climate change, say researchers.
Seen from space 50 years ago, Earth appeared as a gift to preserve and cherish. What happened?
Last year was the hottest for the planet's oceans since global records began in 1958, according to an international team of scientists who track the data.
NASA has unveiled four potential concepts for a multi-billion dollar space observatory that could be launched some time in the 2030s, replacing the James ...
In the wee hours of Thursday (12:19 a.m. Eastern time, to be exact), Earth will make its closest approach to the sun and reach a point in its orbit known as ...
Yesterday saw the super blood moon arrive and there will be another full moon tonight, leading one forecaster to predict that it will cause quake mayhem in the ...
Even though Lake Metroparks Astronomy Day Open House took place less than a day after the best viewing in Ohio of the lunar eclipse, the free event still ...
The misalignment of planetary orbits in many planetary systems -- including our own -- may be caused by distortions in the planet-forming disk early in their ...
Experiments on a microscopic scale have helped scientists shed new light on the chemical make-up of the solar system's largest planets. Researchers have ...
A planet-forming disc of dust and gas is orbiting a pair of binary stars at an odd angle, and a second set of binary stars circle the whole system to keep it in line.
Few space stations want a body stinking up the place. Fortunately, there's always the garbage room.
By studying the history of impacts on the moon, scientists determined Earth experienced a three-fold increase in asteroid impacts 290 million years ago.
As Star Wars: Episode 9 makes its way through production, fans have been treated to set photos. We look at what they reveal about the film's story.
NASA just released the best images yet of Ultima Thule, the most distant world ever visited by a spacecraft. You'll want to grab your 3D glasses if you've got ...
Researchers have analyzed the composition and structure of faraway exoplanets using statistical tools. Their analysis indicates whether a planet is earth-like, ...
The Kepler space telescope can no longer search for planets orbiting other stars. After 9½ years, NASA's premier exoplanet-hunter is out of gas. NASA officials ...
Astronomers using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert have discovered Saturn- and Jupiter-sized planets orbiting a star named CI Tau.
The Kepler space telescope is officially out of fuel and will hunt planets no more, NASA announced.
New telescope images give the clearest view of an exoplanet embryo yet.
Today marks the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three planets with the same size of the Earth.
Scientists with the ALMA telescope have spotted an unusual formation of gas and dust in a double star system 146 light-years away. The system isn't unique in ...
Astronomers have discovered a new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto with an orbit that supports the presence of an even-farther-out, Super-Earth or ...
Bob McDonald hopes to provide grander view of the world in science talk/musical performance.
In an astronomical first, four gigantic planets have been detected around a very young star, a new study reports. The star in question is CI Tau, which lies about ...
Harvard University Astronomy Department chair Avi Loeb is no stranger to controversy. His suggestion a strange object spotted entering our solar system from ...
The first unbiased survey of protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars in the Taurus star-forming region turned up a higher-than-expected number of disks ...
A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from the Sun. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical ...
NASA's newest planet-hunting mission has reported detecting its first alien world — a "super-Earth" that is likely evaporating under the heat from its star, a new ...
In 2016, astronomers announced there was a new planet in the outer solar system. Planet Nine, supposedly larger than Neptune and located far beyond the ...
Astronomers think they've just discovered two more rogue planets wandering the Milky Way alone. And according to the new study, which is set for publication in ...
Earth's moon may not be alone. After more than half a century of speculation and controversy, Hungarian astronomers and physicists say they have finally ...
The UK Centre for Astrobiology runs numerous courses, including geology courses for astronauts at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Pictured here are ESA ...
NASA's newest planet-hunting telescope is hard at work gathering its first data — but just how many planets might it hunt down? According to new estimates put ...
Planets orbiting two stars could hang on to their moons despite the double gravitational tug from their stars. Such moons could give rise to life.
One of seven planets orbiting a small star, TRAPPIST-1, may be capable of supporting life as we know it on Earth, new climate models suggest. Located 39 ...
Hints of young planets in a survey of dusty disks around newborn stars puzzle theorists.
Kepler mission discovered thousands of exoplanets with novel technique.
Forty-four planets in planetary systems beyond our own have been unveiled in one go, dwarfing the usual number of confirmations from extrasolar surveys, ...
The dark waters of a lake deep beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet and a few hundred miles from the South Pole are teeming with bacterial life, say scientists ...
Scientists have discovered 15 new planets, including a “super-Earth” that may have liquid water on its surface.
Astronomers are poring over the candidates from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to confirm how many are bona fide planets.
MEGA earthquakes will occur in the next week as the planets align and create a combined interplanetary tug on Earth, according to conspiracy theorists.
Studying Earth's vegetation over time could help scientists more effectively search for life on other planets, astrobiologists argue in a new paper.
Six light years away, a “super-Earth” planet has been found orbiting beyond our solar system - a discovery astronomers hope will help them with their research ...
Week of Jan. 21With Uranus now direct (leaving Aries soon) in the late degrees of Aries, and with Mars rapidly approaching a conjunction with Uranus, we can ...
For the second time this year, the five brightest planets can be seen at the same time. You can catch them by looking towards the western sky after sunset.
As NASA's Kepler space telescope ends work, scientists recount their favorite discoveries and how the mission has changed astronomy forever.
In studying Mars, NASA's InSight will reveal what makes one planet more or less suitable for life than another.
Twin Falls has what is perhaps the best seat in the house for those wishing to view this weekend's lunar eclipse.
As BepiColombo heads to Mercury — a long-neglected planet — Nature looks at which planets attract scientific missions, and why.
When Pluto was designated a "dwarf planet" in 2006, it ignited a fierce debate about what the classification actually means.
Astronomers announced last week the discoveries of the first two potential planets detected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a new ...
Spain's Centro de Astrobiología (Center of Astrobiology, or CAB) is known for its Martian weather research, as well as its work studying microbes in extreme ...
The planets so far discovered across the Milky Way are a motley, teeming multitude: hot Jupiters, gas giants, small, rocky worlds and mysterious planets larger ...
Perhaps no other star system has elicited so much wonder, mystery and frustration as Barnard's Star. Astronomers announced last Wednesday they'd ...
"Water worlds" are incredibly common throughout the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. Midsize alien planets — those two to four times larger than Earth ...
Astronomers used the powerful ALMA telescope to discover that in other parts of the Milky Way Galaxy (seen here) there is potentially a large population of ...
No one is saying that any pointy-eared aliens live there, but astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting 40 Eridani A, a star known to "Star Trek" fans as ...
Scientists report the existence of 15 new planets -- including one 'super-Earth' that could harbor liquid water -- orbiting small, cool stars near our solar system.
Scientists may have bagged the first-ever exomoon. NASA's Kepler and Hubble space telescopes have spotted evidence of a Neptune-size satellite orbiting the ...
Three baby planets have been found in our own galaxy by pioneering scientists. They are the youngest planets ever seen, and represent a discovery that is "at ...
A team of astronomers says that both Pluto and Earth's moon should be considered planets.
Evidence for Planet Nine continues to mount, but there may be a good reason why scientists have yet to find it – it may be hiding.
While homing in on the seemingly single star, astronomers found an unexpected, much smaller companion star lurking in the outskirts of its dense disk — the ...
A new study could mean researchers no longer need only continue looking for signs of life on planets that emulate our own.