Phil Plait

So long, and thanks for all the space.

Simulations show some stars possess purloined planets.

We’ve found the last planet in the galaxy you'd want to live on.

Would Earth still be considered a planet if it were out in Neptune’s orbit?

NASA's hoping for a DART bullseye.

JWST spies on Neptune and sees storms, rings, and moons.

Today the Sun is directly over Earth's equator.

Four separate impacts detected by the NASA lander.

At 1,570 light-years away it's three times closer than the previous record holder.

The oldest planetary nebula ever seen is in the star cluster M37.

Saturn's rings may be the debris from a long-dead moon.

GJ 896Ab is a planet of many odd characteristics.

The Orion Bar is one place you don’t want to hang out.

Igneous rocks provide a timeline to a crater lake.

Apocalyptic asteroid impacts burn everything around them, which helps ID them.

Small star, big planets, great opportunity.

AS 209's Jupiter-sized planet seen stirring things up around the young star

New jaw-dropping JWST images of a vast star-forming factory.

The planet TOI-1452b is bigger than Earth and may have a lot more water.

New observations may tell us when the cosmos became transparent.