August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

In August 2025, skywatchers will be treated to a planet parade like no other, with six planets and the Moon visible in the ...

A planet’s moons can also influence its ring system. For example, Jupiter has rings just like the other gas giants, but its rings are smaller and fainter than Saturn's.

Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...

On the evening of July 24, 2025, the new moon will arrive, heralding a spectacular celestial display. As reported by ...

New research has revealed that mysterious ‘rogue planets’ could be assembling scaled-down planetary systems of their own.

Uranus is heating up from the inside. Uranus was always seen as a tilted, distant, and kind of boring world. Scientists used ...

A hidden planet up to 10 times the size of Jupiter was found in the disc around MP Mus, thanks to new data from ALMA and Gaia ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected an unusual new variety of plasma phenomenon occurring over Jupiter's north pole.

Its atmosphere is also rich in hydrogen like Jupiter’s. One big difference: It takes this planet more than a century, possibly as long as 250 years, to go around its star.

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