2025 is starting off with a bang for skygazers, with a planet parade now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's ... Uranus and its rings, and 150 times ...

Florian said the planetary parade should be visible throughout Alberta until the end of February, with the last Earth-visible ...

In fact, we didn’t know for sure that any planets at all existed beyond our solar system, and a lot of the ... (We see leaves as green, for instance, because chlorophyll is a light-hungry ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

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

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

A new type of exoplanet has been discovered: Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b. Long heralded as a mini-Neptune, new observations have indicated that it is a member of a category never seen before ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

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

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

While this parade of planets look to our eyes to be huddled in the evening sky, they are of course spread out across a vast chasm of space across the solar system, separated from each other by ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.