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

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...

A newly-discovered planet similar to our own could be capable of sustaining life (Picture: PA Wire) Scientists have ...

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Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Banerdt is Project Scientist for the Mars Rovers ... example of what is probably the most common kind of planet in the solar system—these ice-rich, dwarf or small planets. And most importantly ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different ...

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Conductor Thomas Adès leads a voyage through the solar system with performances on February 26 and 27, as well as March 1 ...