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

Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ...

Since it was launched in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has been using a series of flybys of Venus to carry out slingshot ... the spacecraft would be a melted, crispy ball of debris by now, but ...

Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early days of planet formation about 4.6 billion years ago.

Six planets grace the sky this month in what's called a planetary parade — Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have ... Mercury and Venus, have no true moons because of their proximity to the giant ball of gas, which would have ripped away any potential moons from ...

Think of a seashell. Don’t think of a conch. In fact, forget, for now, about univalve mollusks entirely. Think of Shell, the ...

It last passed nearby 180,000 years ago and the next few nights could be your last chance to ever see it as it drifts over ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet has been spotted over New Zealand skies this week. Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas), which last visited the ...

And yet something is producing phosphine high in the clouds of Venus – and at just the height ... contemplates rocks visiting from outside the solar system, peers at the night sky with eyes ...

Saturn, with its rings and satellites, forms so true a picture of an early stage in the development of the solar system according ... as much matter as Mercury, Venus, the earth, Mars, Uranus ...

Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a ...