"There are plenty of astronomy apps for mobile phones to guide your viewing, but be aware that they can destroy or diminish ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to ...

The rain it raineth every day, as Shakespeare noted, apparently even on Saturn. The cosmos, it seems, is no comfort at this moment.

It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at ...

The odd atmosphere of a fledgling exoplanet is causing astronomers to question leading theories of how planets form. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Want to see Mars at its brightest in January? The best telescopes for seeing planets give you the clearest views of our celestial neighbors. The new year is a great time to test out your ...

Navigation and Geolocation Systems such as GPS and Galileo offer location services ... during long journeys and on the surface of other planets. Mars Missions: SpaceX is engaged in the ...

Most astronomers would love to find a planet, but Mike Brown may be the only one proud of having killed one. Thanks to his research, Pluto, the solar system’s ninth planet, was removed from the ...

In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive planet around a very old star, almost as old as the universe. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements that are the building blocks of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On one front at least, it is hard to look ahead to 2025 with optimism. Hopes that climate change can be ...

It was probably during his time at Padua that his path first crossed with Galileo Galilei and the two ... aligned in a straight line with the planet.” If this were true, Marius had, in fact ...