Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

A Beautiful Planet is a breathtaking portrait of Earth from space, providing a unique perspective and increased understanding of our planet and galaxy as never seen before. Made in cooperation with ...

Astronomers may have discovered a planet in a distant galaxy.. Astronomers identified the possible exoplanet, M51-ULS-1b, because its transit blocked X-ray radiation from the remnant of a dead ...

How many planets do we know about? Most of us would answer that with “eight". That would have been “nine" while Pluto was considered a planet, which it was from the time of its discovery until ...

Our planet sits in a small corner of the Milky Way galaxy, 25,000 light-years from the galaxy's center. Our solar system lives on a minor arm of the Milky way called the Orion Spur.