In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

On February 28, 2025, a rare planetary parade will occur, with all seven solar system planets aligned on one side of the Sun.

Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

To quote a December 2023 Astronomy.com article ... even the solar system’s ejection into intergalactic space wouldn’t imperil life on this planet. Remember, we rely on only one star ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...