Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Seven planets will line up for a rare "planetary parade" today (Feb. 28) and you can watch it live online, beginning at 12:00 p.m. ET (1700 GMT).

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

A local astronomy group gathered Friday evening to see the “Parade of the Planets”. The Astronomy Club of Augusta gave dozens ...