Look west just after sunset from this weekend for a chance to see some of six planets, though the best views will be had ...
Stargazers, get ready for a celestial show! A planetary alignment featuring six planets will be visible in late February and ...
Last year, the night sky provided us with not one but two beautiful planetary parades. The snag for the six-planet parade of August is that it happened before dawn. Very inconsiderate for those of us ...
Get ready for a stunning celestial event! On February 28, 2026, six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...
New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest that even extremely massive gas giants — once thought ...
Explore the visibility of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn in February 2026. Discover observation dates, locations and details based on Space.com and NASA data.
For life to develop on a planet, certain chemical elements are needed in sufficient quantities. Phosphorus and nitrogen are ...
As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.
A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...
A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...
Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...
Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.