Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

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The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.

The curious minds at What If predict what happens if Jupiter swallowed every planet, exploring orbital chaos, planetary ...

The curious minds at What If explore what happens if you swallowed a spider in your sleep, revealing digestion, toxicity, and ...

Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.

Don’t worry if you don’t have a personal geomancer on your phone — we’ve done the cosmic legwork for you, rounding up this ...

Astronomers have detected a smelly gas best known for the odor of rotten eggs—hydrogen sulfide—in the atmospheres of four giant planets far beyond our solar system. While the gas may be unpleasant on ...

NASA describes deep hydrogen compression that eventually forms conductive metallic liquid, making Jupiter feel less like Earth and more like a continuous gradient of states. That alone breaks the old ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

Just look for the three bright stars that make up Orion’s belt. Betelgeuse is a bright reddish star to the upper left of the belt. It marks the right armpit of the nocturnal hunter, not exactly in the ...