As August 2023 draws to a close, we find ourselves deep within retrograde season with seven planets in apparent backward motion. The lineup includes inner planets Mercury and Venus as well as those ...

Welcome to 2026! The new year kicks off on a productive note as communication planet Mercury leaves chaotic Sagittarius for ...

Across the Milky Way and beyond, planetary systems appear to fall into a few recurring blueprints, and recent exoplanet ...

Six planets planets visible during the eclipse With Earth and the Moon currently on one side of the solar system and the rest of the solar system current on the other side, each of the six naked-eye ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...

Earth is percieved as a rocky planet, what are other planets like? Did you know Mars is cold and that outer planets are really gigantic gas envelopes? What about a liquid planet? Could such a planet ...

Astronomers have probed deeper than before into a planetary system 130 light-years from Earth. The observations mark the first results of a new exoplanet survey called LEECH (LBT Exozodi Exoplanet ...

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Cosmochemists now present the most comprehensive comparison to date of the isotopic composition of Earth, Mars and pristine building material from the inner and outer Solar System. Earth and Mars were ...