Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

15, 2025 — Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially ... Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years.

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

These two next weeks offer all but one of the planets in lovely view at nightfall. Fred Schaaf goes step by step through the ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...