but the sight of four or five brilliant planets at once is less common, according to NASA. On Feb. 28, seven planets – Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars – will align ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The moon has “many engagements” with the planets in February, NASA said in its monthly update on what to look out for in the night sky. Throughout February, so long as clear nights prevail ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...