In August 2025, skywatchers will be treated to a planet parade like no other, with six planets and the Moon visible in the early morning sky. This grand celestial display will include Mercury, Venus, ...
On the evening ofOctober 5, 2025, the night sky will offer a captivating sight: Saturn, the ringed giant of our solar system, ...
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational ...
SKYWATCH: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery, just inside Jupiter’s orbit, of Kohoutek, a comet synonymous with unfulfilled expectations.
Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...
The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
(Santa Barbara, Calif) — Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars ...