It's a good time to be an astronomer with the James Webb Space Telescope is bringing in images from deep space. Weather drawing by Breckyn from Mrs. Wing's and Mrs. Meyer's first grade class at ...

To receive the same amount of starlight as Mars receives from our sun, a planet orbiting an M-type red dwarf would have to be positioned much closer to its star than Mercury is to the sun. Disclaimer: ...

Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our solar system. From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of ...

Scientists are sharpening the methods used to search for alien artifacts inside our own solar system, drawing on recent peer-reviewed studies published in The Publications of the Astronomy Society of ...