The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Starting Monday, Feb. 3, the day after Groundhog Day, you should be able to see another planetary parade in the night sky, ...
While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.
Epic music overshadowed redundant imagery ...
The article humorously imagines how planets would describe themselves if they were dating profiles. Each planet has a unique ...
Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.
Heads up! Four planets are visible in the evening sky this month, and another two planets can be found with a little help.
The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...