Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...

Astronomers have been looking for exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star, the nearest solitary star to Earth at just 5.96 ...

George Hampton Middle School student Vincent Chu of Woodbridge won the Prince William Regional Spelling Bee on Tuesday night ...

Josh Dury’s pioneering image shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune and Mercury, as well as Earth, in ‘great planetary parade’ ...

Seven planets are putting on a parade in the night sky, and they're expected to be visible Friday night over the greater New York City area. The parade started with just four planets last month ...

AN INCREDIBLY rare celestial display is set to be visible tonight, where seven planets will align in an arc across the sky. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Saturn and Mercury will align in ...

There are also five additional celestial bodies called dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake. Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say ...

There are also five additional celestial bodies called dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake. Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say The ...