Saturn rises around midnight, and Venus around 2 a.m. Jupiter is low in the east before dawn; Venus is brighter and whiter.

Researchers studied the L 98-59 system and confirmed five rocky planets. One is in the habitable zone and may support liquid water.

If I seem a bit grumpy, there is a reason. It’s the Dog Days and, no, I’m not disparaging man’s best friend. With the ...

Sirius XM's Jim Ftorentine discusses the San Francisco Giants' recent losing streak and dismal batting, exacerbated by poor ...

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get their name from their orbits. These dwarf planets orbit the sun at a ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is ...

There are 8 planets in the solar system, each unique in size, distance, and composition. Learn about all the planets in order from the Sun, their characteristics, and key facts that make them ...