Pulling the plastic bins down the rough pavement of my driveway, I stare up at a smattering of stars and planets. I can’t see that many; the band of the Milky Way that I used to see nightly when I ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

Every Vikram Samvat is governed by a King (Raja) and a Minister (Mantri). The lunar year new Vikram Samvat 2082 started on ...

A study suggesting the exoplanet K2-18b shows potential signs of alien life has been met with skepticism from the scientific ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Study suggests Earth-like exoplanets may be common, based on microlensing data revealing super-Earths with distant orbits.

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

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Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all.

These are the kinds of questions astrophysicist and science journalist Adam Becker poses in his new book, More Everything ...