The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...
A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.
On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...
The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...
Across the Milky Way, planets slightly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune appear around most stars. Yet our own solar ...
It was one of humanity’s greater vanities that we ever questioned whether there are any planets in the universe beyond the eight in our little solar system. Our sun is a perfectly ordinary star, ...
Not all planets are lucky enough to live in a neighborhood like our Solar System – some are doomed to roam the cosmos alone.
Meteor showers, eclipses, a planetary parade and 13 full moons will be visible in the night sky in 2026. Here’s when to see them.