From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Telescopes helped researchers track the planet. Britta Pedersen/dpa A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

Scientists have recently focused their telescopes on a mysterious planet drifting through space, a discovery that has captured the imagination of astronomers worldwide. This Jupiter-like wanderer, ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Stargazing in February: Mercury – a planet of extremes - It may look like the Moon, but Mercury has many more secrets, Nigel ...

Scientists have spotted a “rogue” planet floating on its own through space. Most of the planets we know are found orbiting as part of a star system, with one or more suns, just like our Earth and the ...