For March, “Eyes to the Skies” runs down upcoming space events including a total lunar eclipse, Zodiacal Light and spring’s ...

Saturn’s reign in the evening sky comes to an end on March 25, when Saturn passes behind the Sun (conjunction). Saturn then swings into the morning sky, and will reappear in the east at dawn during ...

Astronomers have reported observations of a rare star system consisting of one star orbiting a system of three more tightly ...

"TIC 120362137 is currently the most compact known 3+1-type quadruple star system." ...

The discovery of the fourth star was done through an algorithm called QUADCOR, which isolates the distinct spectral fingerprints of all four stars simultaneously. By detecting the individual signals, ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form. Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have discovered a star system that’s out of ...

Astronomers already know how planetary systems are born and how they look once they ...

Astronomers have found a planetary system that seems to have formed inside-out. While most systems, like our own, have rocky planets closest to their star and gaseous ones further out, the LHS 1903 ...

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

Just 40 light-years away lies one of the most remarkable planetary systems ever discovered: TRAPPIST-1, a small red dwarf star orbited by seven Earth-sized planets. Four of those worlds sit within the ...