Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

After dusk on Friday night, seven planets are expected to align in the night sky. But you'll need binoculars or a telescope ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might have looked like in its infancy are lost to time. Taking advantage of a ...

according to Space.com and other sites that track celestial events. For the best chances, spectators should look at the sky as soon as the sun sets. That's when the planets will make a brief ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

Full of extraordinary footage, Robert Stone's blissed-out mind-bender of a movie meditates on the possibilities of life in the universe.

The stars may not be aligning on Friday night, but seven planets in our solar system just may be. For weeks, outer space enthusiasts have been gearing up for a planetary alignment, or "planetary ...