A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will appear just above the crescent moon. On the third day of the month, ...

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...

Starting up again Saturday, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. The planetary alignment, or a ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

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

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...