These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...
From Mercury’s rare appearance to NASA’s Artemis II launch window, here’s everything to watch in the skies this month.
Mark February 28 on your calendar.
An international team discovered a new planet, WISPIT 2b, orbiting the young star WISPIT 2 in the constellation Aquila. The planet, estimated to be approximately 5 million years old, is a likely gas ...
A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...
From a rare lunar occultation of Regulus and a six-planet parade to an annular solar eclipse, there will be plenty going on in the night sky in February 2026.
No known process explains how such a carbon-heavy planet as PSR J2322-2650 b could form, according to new research. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration Astronomers have found a ...
A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...
The Earth channels cosmic power in the form of solar energy. The coming winter superstorm shows just what havoc that power ...