A cosmic zoom-out shows the vast scale of the universe, highlighting billions of galaxies and raising the question of whether ...

Eclipses are not particularly rare in the universe. One occurs every time a planet, its orbiting moon, and its sun line up. Nearly every planet has a sun, and astronomers have reason to believe that ...

On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and look through a pair of binoculars at the stars under a dark Sierra ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

Astronomers previously thought that this rock might smack into our planet in 2028. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth got a ...