This February, the planets are making moves that could create some interesting views, but don't expect the planetary alignment to be obvious to the naked eye.

The stars may not align, but the planets will. Stargazers are in for a treat later this month when six planets form a line during a rare event scientists are dubbing a “planetary parade.” The celestial sextet will go down in the weeks leading up to Saturday,

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to the host star, and gas planets toward the exterior. That’s how planets are organized around our sun, with rocky Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars first in the lineup, followed by the gaseous Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, is being monitored by the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever launched into space. It is one of ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA has identified an ocean covered planet about seventy percent larger than Earth. The planet completes a full orbit in just eleven days and sits roughly one hundred million light years away. Scientists say further studies are underway to learn more about this unusual world.

Senior figures at NASA have issued a stark warning regarding the safety of Earth from space-borne threats. Speaking at a major science conference, planetary defence experts revealed that thousands of 'city-killer' asteroids remain undetected,