January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

January's sky brings a planet parade, Mars opposition, and the Quadrantid meteor shower. Enjoy Venus and Saturn's close ...

Through observations, either with space telescopes or with ground-based equipment, we can find out how planets in our solar system and beyond are structured, what materials they are made of, whether ...

The Romans had different names for the Greek gods, and so they were the ones to eventually call it Mars. Jupiter is the biggest planet in our Solar System, and it gets its name from the leader of ...

There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. The tantalizing prospect of a ninth ...

Test your knowledge on our solar system, from the biggest and smallest planets to the behemoth mountain ... Constellations quiz: Can you name all the animals, objects and mythological figures ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system ... to the giant planets, are all part of the spectral group characterized by water ice and silicates." Brittany Harvison, a UCF ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...