A close conjunction of the two brightest planets in the night sky will take place over several evenings, with the best time ...
Three planets, two stars and one moon create a spectacular June sky show.
Skywatchers across Canada can compare for themselves when both planets appear side by side in the evening sky next week. For ...
A quick, beginner's guide to observing Venus and Jupiter – and Mercury – this weekend.
New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.
A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one University of Cincinnati graduate student the kind of first look astronomers wait years for.
SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...
A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets outside our solar system may be magnetic. Using ...