Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...

On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Volunteers use thousands of flowers and other plant material to prepare floats for the 136th annual Tournament of Roses ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...