The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars’ intense heat. Both are disintegrating before our telescopic eyes, leaving trails of debris similar to a ...

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 ...

The Penn State team trained JWST's spectrograph at K2-22, a star discovered by the Kepler spacecraft—as part of its extended K2 mission—to host one of these evaporating planets, K2-22b.

An alignment of six planets will dazzle in January 2025. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the night sky. "The whole month of January is a great time to see the ...

Tonight, stargazers can see a rare "planet parade" as six planets form a visible arc: Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Venus. The rare 'planet parade' will be best seen tonight, when six ...

All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark, according to NASA.

Some of the brightest planets in the night sky are visible right now, with six of them forming a 'planet parade' across the night sky for at least the next month. Just after sunset tonight ...