Seven planets are set to appear in the night sky this month in a rare full planetary alignment. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...

When pitchers and catchers officially reported to the Cardinals' Spring Training headquarters on Tuesday, one notable ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

This week sees a special stargazing event, as as up to six planets will be visible in a line in the night sky.

To see the whole shebang, you’ll need a pretty unobstructed view of the horizon in an area with relatively little light ...

'Planet parade' isn't a technical term in astronomy but it is one widely used to describe the alignments of planets. The ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

An international collaboration including U-M researchers have used JWST to provide an unprecedented window into the formation of planets around young ...