Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is a joint ESA/NASA project. It has become one of the most important science ...

The 'hot Neptune' planet, named LTT 9779b, is so scorching that its atmosphere should have evaporated, according to ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

As far as we know Neptune is the furthest full-size planet in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun some 2.69 billion miles away. But that doesn’t mean astronomers aren’t keeping a close eye on it and ...

They were dug out by debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface 3.8 billion years ago.

This impact unleashed about 130 times the energy of the current global inventory of nuclear weapons. Read more at ...

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, known for the heroic landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, weighed in on the deadly midair collision. Bianca Censori has been romantically linked to Ye, ...

NASA has found something on Uranus and Neptune. The ice giants of the solar system have long been enigmas for science.

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.