The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

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“When it’s brightest, Venus appears as an eerily eye-catching beacon,“ EarthSky wrote. ”Many mistake it for a UFO. It’s ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

Scientists are proposing ways to explore Venus in the next decade and beyond by way of a host of advanced technologies, from ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.