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

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

The stars may not be aligning on Friday night, but seven planets in our solar system just may be. For weeks, outer space ...

Mercury retrograde is, more or less, an optical illusion. Yet it holds great weight in astrology. Here's how it might affect your sign.

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system. And that's true. In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February ...

But an alien civilisation looking towards our own Solar System might use similar alignments for the same purpose. While the planetary parade this month depends on your point of view – any two ...

Experts have claimed it could be the first time all planets including Earth have been captured in a single image.

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

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 ...

Despite the name, a planetary alignment isn’t when the planets get in a row, it’s when a fair few gather on one side of the Sun. A planetary parade, meanwhile, describes them all being visible in the ...