Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

Sometimes in science a negative result is just as important as a positive one. And sometimes data artifacts get the better of ...

Giant worlds beyond the Solar System could be the probe we need to figure out how dark matter manifests in the Universe.

Six planets will be visible in our skies for the next few days in the last “planetary parade” of 2025. Jupiter, Mercury, ...

These linkups happen when several planets appear to line up in the night sky at once. Such parades are fairly common, ...

Beyond the familiar planets lies a fascinating frontier filled with icy worlds, mysterious orbits, and cosmic curiosities.

While most of the planets will be visible to the naked eye, others will require special equipment to be spotted.

The phenomenon, also known as a planetary alignment, allows multiple planets to be seen from Earth at the same time. This was the final planetary parade of 2025, with a crescent Moon expected to join ...

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These ...