With the summer sun preparing to bathe the Southern Hemisphere in golden daylight, the skies of the Northern Hemisphere are being shrouded in inky darkness. Though this darkness is on our side. The ...

Venus, now an "evening star," remains the brightest object in the sky after the moon, while Jupiter shines higher above it ...

Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, will do something astonishing this month. The moon will pass in front of a distant star later this month, obscuring the light of a distant star from Earth's view. While ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a white dwarf star next to a large, hot planet A newly discovered star system is breaking records — and helping ...

Astronomers have identified the longest orbital period exoplanets hosted by a newborn star. The pair of worlds are humungous, ...

NASA has released a slew of pictures of the "Christmas star," a celestial event where the two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, form what looks like a double planet. The event ...

There's a chance that the newly discovered planet with twice the mass of Jupiter could eventually snuggle up to its star to become a hot Jupiter, but the two will need a cosmic matchmaker. When you ...

A newly discovered star system is breaking records — and helping scientists unravel the mysteries of an extreme type of planet known as hot Jupiters. In a paper published Aug. 14 in the journal Nature ...