The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

A stunning photo of a "parade of planets", shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, and Mercury in alignment from ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Everybody loves a parade. Most people who live in chillier climes aren’t exactly rejoicing when February rolls around — but ...

Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ...

We can get an idea of how planets appear through a planet parade, but have you ever wondered how our home planet, Earth, ...

For example, you’ll need binoculars or a small telescope to see Uranus and Neptune—so, while the seven planets will be there, ...

When we have five or more planets filing into a small sky area, an alignment is upgraded to parade status. Parade is not an ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could be visible, but not all can be seen by the naked eye.

After Friday's spectacle, a "planet parade" of this size won't appear in the night sky for several years, experts say.