Stargazers are in or a treat as six planets - Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus - are set to align in the ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

While claims of a “rare alignment” are overblown, you can still see up to six planets in the night sky this weekend. Here's ...

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well ...

Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

In the early evening, look to the southwest and you'll see Venus (the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon) and ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two ...