Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

(The last time all seven planets aligned was on April 8, 2024, during the total solar eclipse). Aug. 29, 2025: Six planets – ...

The study analyzed the circumstellar disks of a pair of stars, learning about how planets are formed from some unexpected ...

When an exoplanet is discovered, scientists are quick to describe it and explain its properties. Now, we know of thousands of ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of ... In the context of our solar system, Mars ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...