While four members of this 'parade' can be easily spotted in a clear dark sky, finding the final two can be something of a ...

Learn what this survey recorded of exocomet belts, which imaged and identified bands of every size.

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

On the evening of February 28, stargazers will witness a rare celestial event: an alignment of seven planets visible ...

BENGALURU: In a rare celestial event, seven planets of the Solar System will align by March this year. Six of the planets — Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is.

Can exoplanets have metal-rich atmospheres? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of intern | Space ...

This January and February, a rare planetary alignment featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will be ...

With a speed of 9 km per second (33 000 km/h), this is the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured in the Universe ...

How many planets are there? As with the discovery of Uranus, the answer depends on who you ask. Detail from Joseph Wright of ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and advanced computer models have classified a type of planet unlike any in our ...

NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter has found the fastest-disintegrating planet ever. Losing a moons-worth of matter every million ...