"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

The planet is 120 light-years away from Earth and is on a sideways axis orbiting two stars, which resembles the activity of a ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

Spica is known as the 16th brightest star in the sky, emitting around 20,500 times ... The "egg moon" term, is due to the moon's elliptical orbit around the Earth; making the moon appear more oval ...

An immense water world, right in our cosmic backyard, could be teeming with alien life. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has found a pair of gases in a distant alien world's ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...