A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. We'll see six planets in the first part of February – ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

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

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars’ intense heat. Both are ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

Two papers showed these intriguing signals, but the team stresses that there are currently many uncertainties to confirming ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...