Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.

The solar system's two largest planets adorn the evening sky this month, while the smaller inner planets linger near the Sun and remain mostly out of sight. You'll want to make Saturn your first ...

In the skies of Earth in February, six of the seven other planets—all except Mars—can be seen in the early evening, but not all at once.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds.

Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a colossal missing piece of the Solar System, a giant planet that appears to ...

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

Scientists argue that limiting the search for life strictly to a star’s traditional habitable zone is too restrictive. That is in light of new climate models, and observations that suggest that liquid ...

Elon Musk’s aerospace company is reportedly targeting a mid-June IPO because there will be a spectacular planetary alignment ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While ...