Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the nighttime sky. The moon, nearly two nights past first quarter and appearing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

Don't put your binoculars away just yet, the planet parade continues through February. Here's which planets will be visible ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Venus, Jupiter and Mars will dazzle in the night sky this month, giving stargazers of all levels a great show. The three ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...