A rare celestial event is captivating stargazers as six planets align in a striking display, says Professor Chandana ...

ANOTHER, even rarer, ‘planet parade’ is set to grace skies very soon. For one night only, all seven other planets in the ...

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Four planets will be in the parade in January while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.

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

An international team of researchers clocked WASP-127b's speedy winds using the VLT's CRIRES+ instrument. Short for "Cryogenic high-resolution InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph," CRIRES+ allows ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...