The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.
Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...
Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...
Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only ...
The exact timing of the equinoxes changes from year to year, but in 2025, the northern hemisphere's Vernal (Spring) Equinox ...
The baseball-mad country of Japan greeted perhaps the brightest star it has ever produced with silence. When Shohei Ohtani ...
Illustration of Barnard's Star as seen from the surface of one of its planets. (Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor/J. Pollard) ...
MAROON-X measures the color of the light so precisely that it can pick up these minor shifts, and even tease apart the number and masses of the planets that must be circling the star to have this ...