Fifty-seven light-years away, a striking pink planet is showing scientists just how diverse the universe can be. Observations ...

On a clear night, it dominates the sky, bright enough to cast shadows and large enough for dark patches and surface features ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have long assumed that angrites always originated in asteroids no larger than ...

Astronomers have catalogued more than five thousand planets orbiting distant stars, and a handful of them defy almost ...

Astronomers have discovered "one of the most extreme exoplanets" ever found in our universe which orbits a star very like our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. A yellowish-orange glow bathes Phainoterra, a planet of dramatic ...

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a ...

While our Sun prefers to go solo, many other stars are parts of binary systems, with a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other. In some cases, the stars are far enough apart that planets can ...

I’m a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik’s launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I’ve witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

This month, six planets in the solar system — Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune and Saturn — will appear in Earth's skies in a "parade of planets." Although the dark hours of Jan. 25 will be a ...