The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Sharing the evening sky this winter will be six planets. Not all of these cosmically distant bodies can be seen without binoculars, if not a telescope, but some can. Here’s how to track the ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

In Earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 442kph, but they ...

An international team of researchers clocked WASP-127b's speedy winds using the VLT's CRIRES+ instrument. Short for "Cryogenic high-resolution InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph," CRIRES+ allows ...

A "parade of planets" happens when the orbits of the nearer and more distant planets enter favorable positions of observation during the same period of time. The appearance of planetary alignment ...

Exoplanet WASP-127b is a hot Jupiter, a gas giant planet orbiting very close to its star. The system is more than 500 ...

A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the month – four of which will be visible with the naked eye, Preston Dyches, ...

While we can enjoy the opposition of distant planets like Jupiter and Saturn almost every year, Mars is only in opposition once every 27 months because our orbits are closer, according to Royal ...