A new study is offering a clearer picture of how planets are born alongside stars, with the lead researcher from British ...
An international team of researchers, including those from the University of Michigan, have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to witness the birth of planets around the young star system PDS ...
Monroeville Public Library is holding a three-part children’s series on space, where participants learn fun facts about the ...
Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...
Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Here are some of this month’s highlights. As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky.
For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.
During the first nights of February, the crescent moon should line up with the planets as well. The planets are spread far apart in the solar system, AccuWeather wrote. Although it can be hard to see ...
The year kicked off with a bit of a show for anyone lucky enough to have clear skies, when six planets in our solar system lined up on Jan. 21, 2025, according to USA Today. The BBC notes that you ...
Prevailing solar system formation theories indicate that these planets should have at least started out following perfectly circular and share the same orbit. But today, their paths are slightly ...