Scientists may have discovered proof of life on a far away planet twice the size of Earth, as the giant emits gas "only produced by life". Astronomers believed they had detected a gas in the ...

It’s nestled at the perfect distance from the sun to allow ... to hunt for these transit events which give away the location of potential planets. TESS, seen here prior to launch, is NASA ...

That's not just because it's too far away. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAS) reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. That decision came several years after discovering the Kuiper ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

The mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft is in peril. The space agency says a malfunction has disabled a reaction wheel that keeps Kepler's telescope pointed precisely at far-away planets, a glitch ...

To view the alignment, you should find a place with a clear view of the horizon far away from light pollution, StarWalk says. The planets will be observable for a few hours after it gets dark.

Uranus and Neptune are simply too far away from Earth, and therefore require a telescope or binoculars to view themCredit: Getty Alignments of four or five planets are not uncommon. All it ...