The six planets were visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21, and for about four weeks afterward. Mars, Venus, ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

While four members of this 'parade' can be easily spotted in a clear dark sky, finding the final two can be something of a ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many ...

Observations of WASP-127b, a giant gas exoplanet more than 500 light years from Earth, suggest it has phenomenally high wind ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu has returned with a $1 billion sample that could rewrite everything we know about ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will resume public viewing after the holidays when students return to campus ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are ...