Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...
Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...
In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System ...
Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Youngstown State’s Ward Beecher Planetarium is usually where people sail through the rings of Saturn or feel the lightning storms of Jupiter, but Friday and Sunday, instead of gazing at the ...
This view happens every 13.7 to 15.7 years, with the next side-on view taking place on March 23, 2025. After that, we will begin to see the underside of Saturn's rings and its south pole, another view ...
Earth's moon might have once had stunning rings like Saturn, but simulations suggest solar radiation, gravity, and planetary ...
A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the ...
Planetary occultations involving the Moon are rare astronomical events, especially when they involve Saturn, one of the more intriguing objects in the Solar System due to its spectacular rings. A ...
But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to ...
So, many questions arise about Chiron’s properties that allow these unique behaviours.’ Centaurs are the dinosaur bones of the solar system, made up of the same dust and gas that formed the solar ...