On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale Blue Dot" image is just as awe-inspiring today.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.
The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...
Six planets are part of the alignment, which will last until Feb. 18. Mercury will join the alignment later in the month.
The planet, dubbed TOI-6038A b, is a dense sub-Saturn size with a mass of 78.5 Earth masses and a radius of 6.41 Earth radii ...
Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...
The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...
Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...
Around the time of your romantic dinner, head outside and look to the southwest to spot the super brilliant planet in the night sky ...
These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second. There is another star that is almost as ...
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...