Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two ...
2022 — Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Researchers have now developed a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both ...
New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt ... However, subsequent studies have challenged this clustering, and the Planet Nine model was not designed to address the Kuiper Belt’s broader orbital ...
A planet’s opposition occurs when Earth passes between it and the Sun. As a consequence of that geometry, Neptune’s disk will appear to be 100% illuminated as seen from Earth. It will be 180º ...
2022 — Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Researchers have now developed a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt ... However, subsequent studies have challenged this clustering, and the Planet Nine ...