NASA's recent findings reveal desert-like planets, popularized in sci-fi like Dune, are unlikely to support life, even within ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

Venus and Jupiter dance in January's evening skies. Four bright planets are conveniently placed for viewing in January's evening sky. By far, the most brilliant is Venus, which dominates the ...

Space technologies are experiencing a real revolution ... and even the prospect of colonizing other planets. For decades, space exploration has been the exclusive domain of government agencies ...

That makes the Red Planet's surface features more easily observed by amateur astronomers and astrophotographers using good backyard telescopes, as well as by professional astronomers using space ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor lists his favorite stories of 2024. When you purchase through links on ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...

Now a new theory suggests a two- to 50-Jupiter-mass object passing through the solar system could be the cause. The evolution of the orbits of the planets is a complex process. Initially ...