Have you ever wondered why the planets in our solar system align along a flat plane? Discover the science behind this cosmic arrangement, from the formation of the protoplanetary disk to the forces ...

Currently shining at its greatest brilliance for this current apparition, this dazzling evening "star" currently appears as a ...

As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky. On February 1, we should see the crescent moon in ...

The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

The latest update for Sins of a Solar Empire 2 brings some icy variety to the galaxy, adds new ship artifacts, and tweaks the game's AI.

The 'Worlds Part II' update is out for No Man's Sky and it introduces a ton of new stuff, some of which is a glimpse of ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

"I Just noticed No Man's Sky is once again in the top 20 world wide best selling games on Steam," tweets Martin Griffiths, an ...

An unidentified interstellar object, possibly eight times Jupiter’s mass, may have disrupted the solar system’s planets.