Astronomers have discovered multiple planets orbiting the brightest star yet. Seemingly unchanged for a billion years, the six planets around a sun-like star are all between the size of Earth and ...

At night, seven-year-old Miguel likes talking to his father Cesar Rubio about planets and stars. “I try to nurture that,” says Rubio, a machinist in Pomona, California, who makes parts for mining and ...

Astronomers are often asked how the casual observer can distinguish planets from bright stars in the night sky. It is commonly thought, and with a certain degree of justification, that stars twinkle, ...

On Tuesday, April 23, the Full Pink Moon made a dramatic appearance after sunset in the eastern sky. When my community education astronomy class broke up at 8:30 p.m., we filed out of the door to face ...