Some believe a planetary opposition — perhaps of Jupiter — may explain the fabled star of Bethlehem. And astronomers have other theories. Perhaps it was a supernova — or the explosive ...

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years ...

The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ... Volcanoes May Help Reveal Interior Heat on Jupiter Moon Sep. 19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's ...

Rather than the star bloating into a red giant that then swallowed the Jupiter-sized world, the planet’s orbit had slowly shrunk, bringing it ever closer to its star. Eventually, the planet ...

The planets Jupiter and Saturn will align on December 21, appearing as an extra bright star to us on Earth. It’s also the day of the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, so it will be ...

What looks like a Sinclair ZX81 but runs Forth? If you said a Jupiter ACE, you get a gold star. These are rare because ordinary people in 1982 didn’t want Forth, so only about 5,000 of the ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports. The discovery stemmed from an unusual temperature pattern scientists observed ...