A fast-moving star, possibly with an exoplanet, has been detected in the Milky Way, challenging current astrophysical models.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These ...

The Princess of Wales' younger brother, 37, delighted fans with a rare glimpse of his one-year-old son, Inigo, who he shares ...

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.

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

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.

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

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...