Australia has some of the most beautiful roads on the planet - but if you're into modifying your car, those roads come with a ...

Astronomers studying extreme planetary systems have identified worlds so massive that they rival the smallest stars in size.

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...

TOI-6894 is now the smallest star known to host a transiting giant planet, with a radius 40% smaller than that of any previous such host. Prof. Jamila Chouquar, who was an astronomer at ULiege at the ...

Mercury appears to move backward (retrograde) in the sky. It's visible briefly in the evening sky, low on the western horizon. You'll need binoculars or a telescope to see it. Mercury will disappear ...

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously ...

Ultra-accurate simulations of the gravity field guide toward a new mathematical foundation of gravity modelling. A layered Earth. (Courtesy: iStock/AlexLMX) The Earth is not a perfect sphere. This ...

On June 6th, the Moon passed near Spica and Antares, providing an opportunity to observe the globular cluster M4 near Antares with binoculars or a telescope. On June 7th, the Dumbbell Nebula (M27) was ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky. Stargazers in the U.S. will need a clear horizon to spot the planetary duo ...