Space experts believe that the 'Dracula' disc could offer new insights into planetary formation, especially in massive ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

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On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...