Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Since the first exoplanet discovery in the 1990s, scientists have found a plethora of worlds around different stars in our galaxy. According to the NASA Exoplanets website, over 4,000 exoplanets have ...

I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters --- unbound to any star system ...

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Galaxies come in a never ending variety of sizes! Out of the billions of galaxies in the universe, some are very small with only a few million stars, while others are huge with over 400 BILLION stars!

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Witness a rare celestial spectacle! Seven planets, including Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, will align in the sky for one night only. Don't miss this stunning planetary ...

Jan. 21 sees the start of a month-long 'Planetary Parade', where we can see 6 planets in the night sky ... a smaller field of view for larger galaxies and nebulas." ...

Abstract: Global magnetic fields in the Earth and other major planets, in the Sun and other active stars, and also in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, are apparently maintained by hydromagnetic ...

They draw material out of the galaxy and then push it back into the interior, where gravity and other forces can assemble it into planets, asteroids and new stars, among other cosmic objects.