While claims of a “rare alignment” are overblown, you can still see up to six planets in the night sky this weekend. Here's ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...

Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century is now taking place. Here's how to see it.

Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a telescope to be seen.

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

How clans form and evolve within human societies has been modeled using a simple computer model developed by a RIKEN ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two ...

A close encounter with a mysterious interstellar object could explain the current orbits of several of Earth’s largest ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is ...

The cosmos, full of endless wonders and mysteries, keeps throwing us celestial curveballs. In a revelation that could reshape ...