Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

The man — whose identity has not yet been released — entered the Fountain of the Planets around 10 a.m., according to police.

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

Last week, standing with the Bible skeptic Michael on the common ground that science affords, we continued to look to the ...

Fair warning: Four planets start their move into retrograde this week ...

A minuscule meteorite seems to be rewriting the history of our solar system. The 50-gram Northwest Africa 12264 has brought a new understanding of when and how rocky worlds came together. Inner ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

On Episode 168 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik jump into the headlines, and boy are there a lot of them! Welcome to the "Survivor: NASA" edition!