A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...

'Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study. Most of the information we have about ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Galileo Galilei, a mathematician at the University of Padua, trained a spyglass of his own creation on the sky, he was overwhelmed ...

Microbes high in Earth’s stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light – so similar molecules could be ...

Planetary alignment, or conjunction, refers to the apparent close grouping of planets in the night sky as viewed from Earth, not necessarily a perfect linear alignment in space. These alignments occur ...