This week, the night sky offers a rare and captivating display as two of our solar system's most distant planets, Saturn and Neptune, reach opposition according to IFLScience. This celestial event ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

NASA has officially confirmed the finding of its 6000th alien planet, furthering its quest to understand our galaxy and ...

On the day of the 2025 autumnal equinox, the sun rises almost exactly due east and sets to the west. The months that follow ...

X, an advanced adaptive optics system on the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope in Chile. The instrument detects hydrogen-alpha (Hα ...

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

You've probably seen this Branford artist's work on major roads, at town entrances and pointing out landmarks in CT.

Fast-moving objects like interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be planet-forming seeds, potentially helping to solve an old Solar ...

If you want to build a little rocket to get off a little planet, [Rocket Lab is] probably a good place to start,' ...

JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water. Recent observations with NASA’s advanced JWST telescope have revealed a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists uncovered bizarre atmospheric structures on Saturn, including drifting “dark beads” in the ionosphere and an asymmetric star pattern in the ...

We know that all those ingredients are unlikely, because Earth's closest neighbours are missing a bunch of them. Venus and ...