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 ...

Bejing: Super-Earths" and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, a new research by an ...

NASA's InSight has provided the first ever "sounds" of Martian winds on the Red Planet.

OSIRIS-REx observations of asteroid Bennu will improve predictions of which asteroids could be on a trajectory that could pose a risk to Earth.

As a Jupiter-size world swings around its small but active star, bombarded by radiation, the planet leaves behind a tail of escaping helium as wide as itself ...

Scientists have found a strange planet, deep in space, that is like a vast balloon. The bizarre world has a helium-filled atmosphere and has bunched up into 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 ...

Perhaps no other star system has elicited so much wonder, mystery and frustration as Barnard's Star. Astronomers announced last Wednesday they'd ...

A plant with an atmosphere bursting with helium that has swollen into the shape of a balloon has been discovered by astronomers. Observations of the planet, ...

The US space agency Nasa has landed a new robot on Mars after a dramatic seven-minute plunge to the surface of the Red Planet. The InSight probe aims to ...

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 ...

NEW BEDFORD — Cruise on down to Rodney French Boulevard and you might find yourself among alien planets. That's right — Venus, Jupiter, Mars and the ...

We're losing Saturn and you should look for the ringed planet close to the western horizon at one hour after sunset.

After decades of searching, astronomers say they've finally detected compelling evidence of an alien world orbiting one of the closest and most iconic stars in ...

One of the best visible planets has joined the early morning sky in the Miami Valley, Venus!

For the eighth time ever, humanity has achieved one of the toughest tasks in the solar system: landing a spacecraft on Mars. The InSight lander, operated by ...

A top Australian astronomer has debunked a warning by a Dutch 'mystic' that the position of the planets could lead to a devastating earthquake over Christmas.

The “Great Dying” was just as bad as it sounds. In the planet's worst mass extinction 252 million years ago, up to 80 percent of all species died out, including up ...

In studying Mars, NASA's InSight will reveal what makes one planet more or less suitable for life than another.

The 2012 Geminid meteor shower was a great one, with a high hourly rate even before the night of peak activity. This particular meteor appears to have been a ...

Astronomers peer inside planetary nurseries for clues about how our Solar System and others came to be.

After traveling through space for more than two years and over two billion miles, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at its destination, asteroid Bennu.

NEW DELHI—The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Bengaluru will send an orbiter to Venus in 2023 and has invited scientists from around the ...

When NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down on Mars yesterday, it was the end of a seven-month journey to the Red Planet. But the landing also ...

Every school kid knows that Earth has a magnetic field – it's what makes compasses align north-south and lets us navigate the oceans. It also protects the ...

This is the fourth in a 10-part series about the ongoing global impacts of climate change. These stories will look at the current effects of a changing planet, what ...

Nine hand-blown glass marbles were stolen last week from the “State of the Solar System,” a Kapow-funded art installation in Bellingham, WA, that depicted the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As Mars' newest resident settles in, Planet Earth is working on three more landers and at least two orbiters to join the scientific ...

A new study led by scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) reveals that the giant exoplanet WASP-69b carries a comet-like tail made up of ...

Sixty years ago, teachers and scientists were warning, "Take care of the earth or the results will be devastating." Many of us believed them, even though our air ...

This morning a white paper by NASA researcher Silvano Colombano, titled "New Assumptions to Guide SETI Research," bubbled up on Reddit.

Students at J.L. Bowler were involved in a family science night where they rotated stations and got to participate in activities with their parents.

Editor's note: Astronomy Update is published on the third Saturday of the month, is provided by the Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society and is compiled by ...

With luck — sky and clouds permitting — Friday the 14th will be a good night to spot Mars. The ruddy planet (sporting a freshly-landed probe on its surface)

NASA just released even better quality pictures of Mars from the InSight probe.

Want to find Neptune the easy way? Just point your binoculars or telescope at Mars the next few nights, when the two planets will be in close conjunction.

The full moon of December, called the Full Cold Moon, will arrive on Dec. 22, a day after making a close pass by Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus.

A briefing on peatlands, from fires crises to future conservation.

There was so much news this year. A boys soccer team got stuck in a cave in Thailand. Never-before-seen footage surfaced of Einstein driving a 'flying car.

The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the Sun, trapping water and gases in the planet's mantle, based on neon isotopes from ...

TRAPPIST-1, a small, Jupiter-size M dwarf about 39 light years from Earth, hosts at least seven planets, three of them orbiting in the star's habitable zone where ...

Mars continues to put on a nice show these December evenings. Target the planet through binoculars or a telescope and you'll also see the much fainter glow of ...

NASA's InSight Mars lander is nearing the Red Planet after a 295 million-mile, 7-month voyage across the solar system to reach one of Earth's closest neighbors.

PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - The NASA Mars science probe InSight streaked into the planet's thin atmosphere on Monday and began its descent to the surface ...

Natalie Batalha, astrophysicist and planet hunter, will describe Kepler's legacy and preview planned follow-up missions in the 2018 Carl Sagan Distinguished ...

The Doctor's actions in Sheffield come back to haunt her as the team answers distress calls from an unknown planet in a slightly underwhelming season finale.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) — An international team of astronomers have discovered a hot helium-rich planet that inflates like a balloon. The study ...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's first robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of a distant world hurtled closer to Mars on course for ...

Mass arrests resulted on Saturday as thousands of people and members of the 'Extinction Rebellion' movement—for "the first time in living memory"—shut down ...

Did you know that Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who argued Earth and other planets orbit the sun, lived, worked and died in Poland?

Astronomers using the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSPEC) on the Keck II telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory have confirmed the existence of water ...

A mission to Mars, supported by the UK Space Agency, has successfully landed and will soon begin the first study of the heart of the planet.

Are we really alone in the vast expanses of this universe?

Planetary scientists have discovered interesting new properties of Saturn and its moons that contradict our current models for how the solar system formed.

AN earthquake which could cause TOTAL destruction is forecasted for the next few days, according to one self-proclaimed tremor analyst.

Venus reaches something known as its "greatest illuminated extent" this week and the sun is setting early.

Known as TRAPPIST-1e, this exoplanet 'would be an excellent choice for further study with habitability in mind,' say astronomers. Ever since its discovery in ...

The 300-million-mile journey that culminated in NASA's InSight landing on Mars this week represents a major scientific coup for all involved, including mission ...

A POWERFUL earthquake that will be “very critical” is predicted to strike the Earth today, a self-styled tremor forecast has warned.

Ben Moore: Oh, I haven't written it yet. I'll do so a week in advance. it depends in what Form you believe in Aliens. Personally, I am convinced that they are out ...

An app developed by a University of Queensland student is helping the visually impaired navigate the stars and planets in our solar system. UQ Information ...

Wondering what the day has in store for your star sign? Here's a quick glance at horoscopes for 10 December 2018 - completely free!

Researchers have analyzed the composition and structure of faraway exoplanets using statistical tools. Their analysis indicates whether a planet is earth-like, ...

Astronomers using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert have discovered Saturn- and Jupiter-sized planets orbiting a star named CI Tau.

According to a study, the Earth formed relatively quickly from a cloud of dust and gas around the sun, trapping water and gases in the planet's mantle,

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 ...

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 ...

Today marks the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three planets with the same size of the Earth.

Evidence is mounting that a world the size of Neptune could be orbiting a giant planet far, far away.

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 ...

Rob Weiland is class manager for the TP52 and Maxi72 associations, two planets existing in a distant orbit from most sailing organizations. Regardless, we ...

Not many know the name Carl Alvar Wirtanen, but in December many stargazers will be saying it. On Jan. 15, 1948, he discovered a faint comet that has ...

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.

If the first interstellar object ever detected in our solar system is actually an alien spacecraft, it's operating in stealth mode. A search for radio signals coming from ...

As BepiColombo heads to Mercury — a long-neglected planet — Nature looks at which planets attract scientific missions, and why.

With their telescopes aimed beyond Pluto to the outer fringes of our solar system, a trio of astronomers has discovered a tiny dwarf planet whose extraordinary ...

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 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 ...

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.

The two possible planets, each larger than Earth and too hot to be habitable, are the first of hundreds of Earth-sized exoplanets expected to be discovered by a ...

Researchers have identified more than 100 giant exoplanets that could have potentially life-hosting moons. The new analysis could change the way scientists ...

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 ...

Kepler mission discovered thousands of exoplanets with novel technique.

Scientists have long been unable to find exoplanets—planets outside the solar system—beyond the confines of the Milky Way. After all, our galaxy is a warped ...

Why settle for a planet or two when you can catch all of them in just one night of intense skywatching? Tonight (Aug. 23) and for a brief period in early September ...

Our outer solar system is a dark, cold place that's difficult to explore from Earth. But careful observations are turning up more and more evidence for a massive ...

Scientists have discovered 15 new planets, including a “super-Earth” that may have liquid water on its surface.

A student who began her master's degree in May partnered with an international team of researchers to discover a special cosmic neighbor twice the size of ...

"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 ...

It's been impossible to obtain images of an exoplanet, so dazzling is the light of its star. However, astronomers have the idea of detecting molecules that are ...

WE have discovered 3663 (and counting) planets around distant stars. About 50 are in the 'Goldilocks zone' which supports liquid water. A new study has ...

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.

A team of astronomers says that both Pluto and Earth's moon should be considered planets.

Studying Earth's vegetation over time could help scientists more effectively search for life on other planets, astrobiologists argue in a new paper.

Extraterrestrial life could exist on "exomoons" say scientists, whose study will help design a telescope to scan for alien life.

The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a massive, gassy world that is almost 99 percent invisible.

First spied in the 1960s, the huge dust clouds have now been confirmed—and may affect plans for future space exploration.