Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

The planets in the Solar System are all different ... is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in diameter (that's about the same the length as Great Britain).

To transport a delicate lens 18 inches in diameter from New Hampshire to the ... but when one attempts to portray the planets in detail, these obstacles are increased many times.

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?

Scientists have uncovered a new way rogue planetary-mass objects (PMOs) may form—not as failed stars or ejected planets, but through violent cosmic encounters. High-resolution simulations reveal that ...

The planets were found by carefully monitoring the brightness of the star ... How long the planet takes to transit across the ...

Saturn is one of the planets that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. It is the sixth planet from the Sun, between Jupiter and Uranus. With an equatorial diameter of 120,000 kilometres, it is ...

and he told Live Science "The general rule of thumb is to use a telescope with a larger diameter for the planets to revolve greater light-gathering, and a smaller telescope to provide a smaller ...