It would be hard to develop a calendar, with no clear sight of direction of the sunset, let alone moon phases, and solar ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets ...

Unlike other celestial metaphors -- the sun, moon, stars -- clouds have varying qualities depending on the day, and their range of appearances make them useful metaphors for a range of qualities.

Such clouds are thin enough to only slightly dim the sun, moon and brighter stars, but apparently just opaque enough to hide a dim patch of light like the Beehive. Joe Rao is a television ...

Five parts deal in turn with “The Moon”, “The Sun”, “The Sun's Family of Planets”, “The Stars”, and “Astronomers and Observatories”, and the subjects are treated in a manner ...

Dusty clouds made of sand—that may rain iron—blanket a giant planet orbiting a young, sun-like star just 310 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. The discovery was made ...