A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" that splits the Red Planet into two distinct halves. Recordings of ...

Six plants will visibly align on Jan. 31, and seven will do the same on February 28, according to Star Walk, an educational app that tracks celestial objects in real time. Planet parades usually ...

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.

taking a few scheduled breaks along the way to carry out science observations as part of its ongoing search for signs of ancient microbial life on the distant planet. NASA is currently considering ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Anomalous orbits of Kuiper Belt objects, studied since 2016 by Caltech’s Michael Brown, point to the gravitational pull of an unseen planetary body. Locating Planet X involves monitoring vast ...

This real-time analysis of rock composition uses software called PIXL (Planetary Instrument For X-Ray Lithochemistry) developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Investigating the chemical ...