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

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The Georgia Southern Planetarium will offer its popular "Perfect Little Planet" show on February 6 & 7. It's fun for all ages ...

An international team of researchers clocked WASP-127b's speedy winds using the VLT's CRIRES+ instrument. Short for "Cryogenic high-resolution InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph," CRIRES+ allows ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

JANUARY 27, 2025 — The UTSA Office of University Strategic Communications has earned The University of Texas System’s top award for communications strategy for its storytelling about the university’s ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...