The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

In Part I of the same title “Is the Ukraine War coming to an end? Published on April 14, 2025, in Daily Times, I argued that “several things have happened for the first time in the Russia ...

The planet is 120 light-years away from Earth and is on a sideways axis orbiting two stars, which resembles the activity of a ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...

However, when Cruz pressed Isaacman about the Lunar Gateway, a space station NASA is developing to fly in an elliptical orbit around the Moon, Isaacman would not be drawn in. He replied that he ...

Mission success in space requires making tough decisions. How, where, and when a mission will operate is the result of meticulous scrutiny. For example, a key decision is which orbit — which ...

Delhi grapples with a heatwave as the government issues a health advisory, urging residents to take precautions against heatstroke. Vulnerable groups like children and the elderly are particularly at ...