Every night is a good night to look through a telescope (provided it’s not cloudy), but if you’re looking for an excuse, Jupiter is lining itself up for some candid closeups. At its farthest point, ...

A newly analyzed planetary system has turned up a world orbiting at such a skewed angle that it defies the neat textbook ...

ALMA observations of the spiral patterns in the disk around the young star IM Lup. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WHTM) — Six planets in our solar system are ...

The planet’s apparent backward motion occurs for a few weeks about every four months. Here’s what’s really happening—and how astrology became a modern phenomenon. Mercury is seen in an image taken by ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM (WHTM) — Right now, six planets in our solar system are moving “in retrograde”, and will be for a while. Here they are in their order from the sun: Having so many planets moving in ...

All of the objects in our solar system are acted upon by forces. Forces are pushes or pulls. Every force has both a strength and a direction. Applying a force on something–like pushing a toy car–can ...

The planet, if it is indeed a planet, is one of the most massive ever detected around a small star. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...