The growing pains of young planets as they enter their teenage phase have been captured in unprecedented detail by an ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

On Jan. 23, Mars in Capricorn will harmonize with Neptune in Pisces, highlighting how discipline brings tangible results.

It sounds like something straight out of a big-budget sci-fi film, but the idea of diamonds falling from the sky […] ...

Astronomers are getting used to a strange new kind of cosmic mystery: worlds that seem to appear in their data, linger for years, then simply vanish. In one closely watched case, a suspected planet ...

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...

Specks of dust from Saturn’s rings appear to float much farther above and below the planet than scientists thought possible, suggesting the rings are more like a giant dusty doughnut. The main ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

Sub-Neptune exoplanets tend to be much closer to their host star than Earth is to the Sun and are thought to have atmospheres made of steam over layers of an exotic phase of water that behaves like ...

Mr. Shachtman is a longtime reporter on national security. You remember the pictures. The images of tech oligarchs kissing the ring at President Trump’s inauguration were instantly iconic, markers of ...