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Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

Solar system’s largest planet remains a brilliant, unwavering beacon, forming a striking trio with Castor and Pollux ...

Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...

What is a planetary retrograde? And what connection does it have to astrology? We explain how planets move across the sky.

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like Arrokoth can form directly during the gravitational collapse of a dense ...

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While ...

Six planets will be parading through the sky at the end of the month, and you won’t have to stay up late into the night to ...

Astronomers have captured the first detailed views of a young sun-like star blowing massive bubbles, offering a rare glimpse ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

There are some clocks, mostly in or around international airports, which have multiple faces to show the time at various ...

The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft has captured detailed images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, offering ...