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With thousands of exoplanet candidates discovered, astronomers are starting to figure out how to group them in order to describe them and understand them better.

A remarkable new image reveals the teething painsof an entire planetary system --

A skywatcher is literally beaming at the night sky in this star-speckled portrait. Astrophotographer Ruslan Merzlyakov captured this cosmic selfie while stargazing on the beach in Stenbjerg, Denmark in January.

A team of bioengineering students from UC San Diego has successfully created an experiment to test if beer can be brewed on the Moon The post This is Important! Students Are Figuring Out How to Make Beer on the Moon appe...

Thomas Pesquet: The magic river Dniepr. Back in February I was stunned when I saw these magical winter landscapes: a frozen river north of Kiev and prime example of Earth Art...

The star cluster Hodge 301 is 20 million to 25 million years old. Hodge 301 is home to many aging, red supergiant stars, indicating the cluster is older....

Tabby's Star, KIC 8462852, located deep in an outer spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy, some 1,480 light-years from Earth is entering another of its irregular dimmings, dipping suddenly by 3 percent in just a few days. P...

The projection of Saturn's shadow on the rings grows shorter as Saturn's season advances toward northern summer, thanks to the planet's permanent tilt as it orbits the sun....

Exploring the Atmosphere of Earth-Like Planet Proxima b and Its Potential for Life --"Orbiting Our Closest Neighboring Star" (VIDEO) Spacetime is "Constantly Moving, Similar to Waves in the Ocean" Vast Magnetic Field Lin...

Call it Rogue #0?

A new observing campaign aims to understand a star that some have suggested might even host an alien civilization --