Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet ... of the solar system may ...

Josh Dury’s pioneering image shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune and Mercury, as well as Earth, in ‘great planetary parade’ ...

Dr Dan Brown, an astronomy expert here at Nottingham Trent University, explained to The Sun: "All planets including Earth move in more or less the same plane in our solar system. "So that from ...

Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ecliptic, is the same one that the sun travels along during the day.

On Friday, it will be possible to see all seven at once, though a telescope will be needed to observe the furthest away planets. This is the second time in 2024 that the solar system has been ...

Planets in the solar system. Credit: NASA and ESA / CC BY-SA 4.0 A rare celestial event will unfold on the evening of Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, when seven planets line up in the night sky in a phenomenon ...

Lastly, astronomers could use data from planets beyond the solar system to figure out how common life-hosting planets are, and how often these planets have hard-step candidates, such as oxygen ...

THURSDAY, PROBABLY NOT SO MUCH, BUT FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND. THINGS ARE LOOKING GOOD. TWO OF THE SEVEN PLANETS, THREE ARE EASILY FOUND AND WE’LL JUST TALK ABOUT THOSE REALLY QUICK. JUPITER IS ...