A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. We'll see six planets in the first part of February – ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

In the sky, Enaiposha is one of the most researched exoplanets. Discovered in 2009, it has a mass and radius that placed it ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

Early 2025 is a good time for skygazing and spotting up to seven planets in the night sky – if you have a little help.

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before.

It also has a thick atmosphere, veiled by dense aerosols, that seemed impenetrable — until now. With the cutting-edge capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have detected ...