"Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth." ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS reaches perihelion, Venus is a bright evening star, and the New Moon passes in front of the Sun in ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher describes the upcoming conjunction of two bright objects in the evening sky. On October 5th, you ...

Astronomy Photographer of the Year, the annual photo competition showcasing all things space, is back. Ed Bloomer, senior ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the annular eclipse that will occur Oct. 2. Annular eclipses occur when the Sun, the Moon, and Earth line up, in that order. But in this case, the ...

Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus ...

The Square Kilometre Array will take longer to expand further into eight African nations than originally planned.

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

New research on WASP-107b reveals how strange this planet's atmosphere is, experiencing perpetual night on one side ...

Astronomers and biologists have long believed that a lot of the chemistry necessary for life was imported to Earth aboard ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies. By Dennis Overbye Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around ...

Oct. 10-12: The comet will appear in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere shortly after sunset, very low in the western sky ...