This rocky planet, discovered with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, is smaller than Earth, ...

For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...

Red dwarfs like Barnard's star are often targeted by astronomers since low-mass rocky planets are easier to detect there than around larger sun-like stars. Barnard b, as the newly discovered ...

Nested morphology of gas streams confirms a mechanism that helps infant stars to grow by ... including the inner, rocky planets of our solar system – roughly between Earth and Mars. These winds also ...

But the planet is too close to the host star, closer than the habitable zone," González Hernández said in a statement. "Even if the star is about 2500 degrees cooler than our Sun, it is too hot ...

A planet has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have been able to see the exoplanet – ...

On Monday night (Oct. 7), Venus will be in the constellation Libra, the Scales. But by next month – on Nov. 4 – it will have appeared to have moved about 38-degrees to the east where it will then ...

The astrological effects of the new moon on Oct. 2 will be "three times more powerful" than others because it coincides with ...

The emergence of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS into the evening sky on Oct. 11 presents a great opportunity for casual viewers and ...

As Mars gets a little closer and brighter each night and Venus gets higher and brighter, Saturn is still close to its best as ...

Venus shines bright after sunset, the giant planets rise before midnight, and Mars shines before dawn. Plus, catch Comet ...