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

Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its 2026 orbit on Jan. 3. The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any ...

Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

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

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

A new year for sky-watchers begins with Jupiter coming into opposition on January 10th.  This means that Jupiter appears to ...