Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense within the context of a major merger." ...

This includes studying the formation and evolution of planets, the moons and rings that orbit them, and other smaller bodies such as asteroids and comets. An examination of nearly 8,000 impact ...

Venus begins a season-long absence from the sky, hidden by the glow of the Sun as it slowly passes behind our star, not returning to our view until August. It reaches superior conjunction on June 4, ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there ...

Research published in August 2024 finally confirmed the presence of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, dubbed Barnard’s Star b or Barnard b for short. And now, three additional planets have ...

The search for Earth-like exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our sun—is a central topic in today's planetary research, because extraterrestrial life is most likely to be found there ...

Planet America returns to ABC tonight with a brand new set: ‘The Situation Room.’ Chas & John are here to make sense of those pesky tariffs. Trump’s tariff turmoil continues, but is he bluffing? We ...

Saturn's transit from Aquarius to Pisces on March 29, 2025, is predicted to have far-reaching effects, including political upheavals in India, significant financial exposures, and global religious ...