Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

A charming Arizona town in the west was designated as the world's first International Dark Sky City, meaning it offers beautiful views of the Milky Way.

Read A sky chart showing Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus in a "planet parade." Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech On most ...

Let’s review three important sets of three cats. There’s Josie, Valerie, and Melody of Josie and the Pussycats. Felix, Tom, ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than ... 2024 YR4 follows a highly elliptical, four-year orbit, swinging through the inner planets before shooting past ...

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

Timing: Dusk after sunset, but before 9 p.m. local time There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto ... southern and eastern night sky, just after sunset: Venus ...

The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the body ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few ...

Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn are all currently lined up in a row and will be visible in the night ...