Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...

The Solar System is far larger than the neat diagrams found in textbooks. Beyond the planets lies a vast region of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt, followed by the even more distant Oort Cloud, ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 20Once the waxing Moon sets this evening, its ...

The first solar eclipse of the year will happen over Antarctica, where very few people live but there are many penguins. This astronomical phenomenon will be ...

With Area 51 ruled out by President Obama, where might aliens really be hiding? Scientists have now revealed the best candidates.

Scientists say aliens are not hiding in Area 51. Experts believe life may exist on distant planets with water and the right temperature. Some moons in our Solar System, like Enceladus and Titan, may ...

Precious metals may be escaping from the planet’s core. This hotly debated subject could help us understand Earth’s evolution and determine whether life exists elsewhere in the Universe ...

The earth and the heavens are connected to each other. The light and the heat, the blessings and the mercy in form of rain for instance, come down from the skies. According to the consensus of ...

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

A star returning to the solar system after bizarrely disappearing for nine months. And not just any star, ASASSN-24fw is twice the size of the sun — so when astronomers were having trouble spotting it ...