The brightest planets in the night sky will shine as the 'planet parade' continues throughout February, plus be on the lookout for the Moon to join the line-up, and for Saturn to 'tag' Mercury in ...

Patients with cancers of the abdomen and pelvis which were previously thought to be inoperable are now surviving long term ...

Big dreams seem feasible again as Jupiter ends its four-month retrograde.

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

These two next weeks offer all but one of the planets in lovely view at nightfall. Fred Schaaf goes step by step through the ...

When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...

Venus, Jupiter and Mars will dazzle in the night sky this month, giving stargazers of all levels a great show. The three ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Chorus waves, quick bursts of energy known to occur relatively close to Earth and around other planets, were found in an ...

Epic music overshadowed redundant imagery ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

What astronomers call a “parade of planets” will be visible in the early evening sky all month. Mark Pitts is an assistant ...