New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

As the temperatures drop and nights lengthen, we're now able to see the beautiful Pleiades star cluster rising in the east in ...

Astronomers from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) in Australia and elsewhere have reinvestigated a planetary ...

Some 25 million radio signals were detected, but all were eliminated by a clever computer code as terrestrial radio frequency interference. The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 ...

We wanted to put the spotlight on the planets themselves with this article, so you'll have a much better understanding of their origins and history if you've been watching Star Wars from afar ...

Researchers have developed a new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary radio communication in the TRAPPIST-1 star system. A new technique allows astronomers to home ...

If you see the other comet, that close, well, it's been nice knowing you. Hopefully, you'll get to see a comet and a couple of planets with your naked eyes tonight. You won't need a telescope but ...

China's space authorities pledged to begin searching for extraterrestrial life and habitable planets both within and beyond the solar system in a mid- to long-term plan released Tuesday. The China ...

Professor Andrew Coates, a physicist and Mars researcher from UCL, argues that human settlers would contaminate the planet and jeopardise the search for alien life. He claims humanity should only ...

IRISH stargazers are in for a treat tonight as a planet is set to be visible for the "first time in 15 years". Tuesday night is the perfect time to see Saturn in Irish skies. For the first time in ...