Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... Questions Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined ...

A rare celestial event is captivating stargazers as six planets align in a striking display, says Professor Chandana ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start.

Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry provided powerful tools to study asteroid samples returned by NASA ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun on Jan. 15. It will be visible all night long because it will rise with the ...

Although planets are technically always ‘aligned’ because they orbit the solar system on the same plane ... closest to Earth at 2 pm UK time on 12 January. It was 5.3 light-minutes away ...

Earth will reach its closest point to the sun, known as perihelion, on Jan. 3, 2026 at 12:15 p.m. EST (1715 ... For some bodies, like all of the planets of the solar system, the difference between ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...