Claims of a "rare planetary alignment" are misleading; it's just visible planets. A true "golden conjunction" occurs on Sept.

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

Slated for a 2027 launch, NASA's NEO Surveyor mission is advancing through critical testing phases to enhance our planetary ...

The astrophysical and planetary sciences department has an extensive list of ... and Smithsonian magazine’s 2015 American Ingenuity Award. Professor of physics and astronomy at Michigan State ...

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

Stargazers who have heard of an amazing planetary alignment coming later in January may be in for a letdown if they look up at the night sky expecting to be dazzled. Yes, six planets will be ...

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

Retirements and reassignments have led to a reshuffling of leadership in part of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus will be visible over Britain from Tuesday evening and occurs just once every ...