Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

When it was first discovered, it was over 400 million miles from planet Earth and was not remotely visible to the naked eye or even consumer-grade telescope, according to Space.com. While studying ...

Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.

a bright star within the star-forming nebula N79 appears to burst forth through a web of cooler gas and dust in this image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Located in the Large ...