Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

T'puram: Students at Cotton Hill Girls Higher Secondary School can now observe planets and stars up close, as an astronomy ...

Irish astronomy week, which begins this weekend and runs to March 8th, will coincide with the “great planetary alignment” taking place in our skies. “The event is planned to coincide with a ...

For the last month and change, you might've seen the headlines about the planetary alignment, or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system. And that's true. In January 2025, Venus ...

Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S.

The planetary parade on February 28, 2025, is a rare celestial event where seven planets—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—align in the night sky. This once-in-a-lifetime ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

New findings suggest planetary-mass objects may emerge from clashes between young star systems, altering existing theories.

A rare grouping of 10 celestial bodies is captured in a stunning new photo taken during last weekend’s great planetary parade ...

If the stellar contender is traveling at more than 1.3 million mph (2.1 million km/h), it will have a sufficient escape velocity to one day leave the Milky Way and drag its planetary companion ...

Commonly called a planetary parade or alignment, this event happens when several planets appear close together in the sky ...

Applicants must be younger than 35 and “maintain a firm political stance” in line with the ruling Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, the job listing said.