Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers ...

Anna Kendrick has spent this weekend at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in Austin, Texas, to promote and premiere ...

Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

(Earth, of course, is the eighth planet, and poor Pluto was demoted in 2006 and is now considered a dwarf planet.) Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye.

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

All seven other planets in the solar system will be visible at the end of February, treating stargazers to a dazzling display ...

Sorry to Pluto, but it got booted out of the planets club in 2006, so we’ll count this as a full house even though it won’t be appearing. Just after sunset this week has been the best time to ...

Seven planets are aligning in the night sky this week, creating a brief chance to see a "planetary parade." Worldwide, the best day to see the alignment is today, Feb. 28. Mercury, Venus ...

For a brief moment on Friday, every planet will appear in the night sky simultaneously in a rare celestial spectacle. This so-called planetary parade, which will occur shortly after sunset on 28 ...

"If a planet with an atmosphere goes in front of a star, that alignment means the starlight goes through the planet, and the molecules and atoms in the planet's atmosphere absorb light at certain ...