Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

but the sight of four or five brilliant planets at once is less common, according to NASA. On Feb. 28, seven planets – Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars – will align ...

Hidden in the Heavens: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own Jason Steffen Princeton Univ. Press (2024) In the mid-1980s, NASA engineer William Borucki faced ...

NASA is preparing to bring home two astronauts after an unplanned extended stay at the International Space Station.

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

Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

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

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

These events, often called "planet parades" or "planetary alignments," though not exceedingly rare, are worth observing since they don't happen yearly.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Another reason lies in the fact that the space station experiences a new sunrise every 45 minutes as it orbits the planet at ... So, for any of NASA's astronaut cohort on orbit to watch the ...

This technique helps identify: Exoplanets are more than just distant worlds; they hold clues to planetary formation, atmospheric dynamics, and the conditions necessary for life. NASA has confirmed ...