The year 2025 will be amazing for astronomy enthusiasts, with several planetary alignments predicted. The most significant ...

The six planets will be visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21, and for about four weeks afterward. Mars, ...

A six-planet alignment or parade will form an arc in the early night sky, peaking in it's visibility Jan. 17-18. We let you ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

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Space agencies around the world are setting their sights on new frontiers, with plans to explore Venus and other distant ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...