April’s planetary parade has fewer planets. Only four will line up: Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. April's parade of ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Four of Earth’s neighbors are about to appear in a planetary alignment. Those four planets — Mercury, Venus, Neptune and ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the sun rises next week as three celestial bodies will ...

Q: Why do the planets all orbit the Sun in the same plane ... space history division at the Air and Space Museum. About 4.5 billion years ago, a massive cloud of dust started contracting ...

“Thimmamma Marrimanu is one of the superlative organisms of the planet,” a treetop biologist ... with a canopy of nearly five acres. The tree is about 100 miles north of Bangalore, India ...