Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and ...

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

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could ...

Astrophysicists have achieved a major breakthrough by capturing images of exocomet belts around 74 nearby stars. Using the ...

2025 is starting off with a bang for skygazers, with a planet parade now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

Astrophysicists have imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them. The crystal-clear images show light being emitted from these millimeter-sized ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...