The Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun. Like the Earth, half of the Moon faces towards the Sun, and half faces away from it.

This Earth-like planet, with a mass approximately 1.9 times that of Earth, is orbiting its white dwarf star at a distance of ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

The last supermoon of 2024 will be visible worldwide on Friday night. This supermoon will reach its peak brightness on Friday ...

There’s a pattern to all of this: from Earth, Venus appears to have an eight-year cycle in which it orbits the sun 13 times. This current apparition of Venus at the bright “Evening Star ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, the sun itself was surrounded by a protoplanetary disk from which the planets, including Earth, took shape. As the absence of this disk in the modern solar system ...

An international team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in understanding how and when the Sun formed about 4.6 ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...