Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

A six-planet alignment or parade will form an arc in the early night sky, peaking in it's visibility Jan. 17-18. We let you ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

A way to find the planets is to look for how they shine. They appear as a steady light, while stars appear to twinkle.

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...